The Quest for 1GHz - Part 2
Ok, well lets begin. About a month ago or so, I was in the market for a CPU upgrade and I ran across a deal on a new Celeron II 533Mhz “FC-PGA” (MAYLA) @ $ 180.00 Shipped. And hearing all the great news about how a lot of these CPU would overclock to 850MHz or more, I thought I would give it a try. At the time I was running a Celeron PPGA 366MHz @ 550MHz+ which was a rock solid CPU, but like many us, I really wanted to see what my system could do, that need for speed thing again J, Anyway, I bought the CPU and The Golden Orb fan/HS compo, installed it in the Iwill Slocket II adapter and set the voltage to auto detect, since I like to use the Abit Bios to do the Voltage tweaks, attached the Golden Orb, then Installed the whole thing into slot 1. Pretty standard install. Then I fired it up and “broke-it in” a bit at 8x100 = 800MHz. @ 1.7 Volts No problems at all at that speed and all the normal stuff like UDMA/66 and the L2 cache enabled was on and SDRAM set to Cas 2. I would like to add that this was done on a clean install of the 2 Operating Systems, Win ME (BETA) and Win 2000 PRO, and that I personal think that all the other component should be running as close as possible to normal or optimal conditions, more on this later. So after benchmarking it and “burning-it in” for a few days, I took it as high as it would go to 937MHz @ 1.80 volts ROCK SOLID and stable! Any higher and it just wasn’t stable, and what I mean by stable is booting up into the Operating systems and running several benchmarks, like Prime95 and Burn-in test and such at the same time and for at least for 6-12 hours or longer. I personal use others too like 3Dmark 2000 Max Ver1.1 and such. Basically throwing everything in the book at it to see what it can take J. Well, I should have been VERY happy with this, a 533MHz Overclocked to 937MHz and 6,653 on the 3Dmark 2000, (and no, the Video Card was not overclocked), and with all the other components running at there optimal speed and performance too! Not too bad for just throwing the CPU in as is, but as I thought about it, I’m just 63MHz away from the glorious 1,000Mhz (1GHz) mark!here for the next page of how to hit a Gig
