NaughtyNu 0 Posted January 21, 2000 Hello. Currently right now I have a Celeron 300a oc'ed to 375, 196 megs of ram, Asus P2B mobo, Asus TNT1 and an SBLive. My friend got himself a Celeron 433 dirt cheap from this one store and I'm wondering if I should go nab one while they're cheap. I'm just wondering because these newer Celerons are all 370 chips and I'm with a slot 1 mobo. The adapter I saw my friend get had a jumper on it for 66/100 bus. Now... would a Celeron like that be worth it for me, and can I oc it like I'm doing now? Right now I'm doing an 83 bus and I'd love to do the same with anything else but I've never read of people oc'ing with those 370 chips in an adapter in a slot 1 mobo. That 66/100 jumper on the adapter is causing me to think you can only do those bus speeds with a 370 chip in it? I realize this is more of a general hardware question than a W2k one, sorry. Mind you with W2k out in some various methods, the retail selling in only a few weeks and (hopefully) more stable and optimized drivers coming out I'm wondering if that little extra bit of speed could help me out any in 2k as well as 98SE since it looks like I'll be stuck in it for my gaming needs for a while longer. Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted January 21, 2000 I have a pair of PPGA 300a's in Slot1 adaptors (slockets) running at 450Mhz 24*7 in a SuperMicro P6DBS. I'm using the MSI 6905 v1.1 slocket card. Word is that you can run a 400Mhz Celery up to 600Mhz with 100Mhz FSB... Share this post Link to post
Tim Bazzinett 0 Posted January 21, 2000 You might be able to run the 400 at 600, but a safer bet is to run the 366 at 550 which is much more attainable than a 400 at 600. I also run a 300A at 450 and have no problems running win2k professional, but more power would be nice to have (and a GEforce256 DDR!). You havent been able to get your 300A to 450? I'm sure you have tried already. Well, you must have gotten one on the bad ones. [This message has been edited by Tim Bazzinett (edited 21 January 2000).] Share this post Link to post
NaughtyNu 0 Posted January 22, 2000 Yeah I tried the 100 and Windows kept on farting out after a few mins. I didn't realize that I never had the test jumper flipped not too long ago but oh well, might play with it if I ever get bored and run some tests and whatever. ...however the question remains, should I bother with the 433 Celeron? From the sounds of it I can oc it dispite the adaptor's 66/100 jumper. The thing costs about $130 Cnd so I'm wondering if it's worth it and if it's possible to get an 83mhz bus out of a thing like that Share this post Link to post
sailbrdr 0 Posted January 22, 2000 same question for me: Current System: 2x PII 300 (not O'C) SuperMicro P6DLS (440LX)+UW SCSI SBLive! Value Viper770U 10/100EtherNet Card DVD decoder 2 IDE hard drives, 1 UW SCSI HD, 1 DVD, 1 6x4x16 CDRW SCSI 20" and 17" monitor s3 Virge (for the 17") I have the opportunity to get 2 new celeron 466 or 500 or 533 for CHEAP! Heard the 500+ has a harware thing so that SMP doesnt work. like to O'C using a 75MHz bus but not sure if it would work either way... is it worth the upgrade ( will my quake 3 get over 30FPS?) Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted January 23, 2000 go for two Celeron 400 PPGA's and an ABit BP6 MB......the celerons are $75 ea. and the MB is like $160 Share this post Link to post
NaughtyNu 0 Posted January 23, 2000 So....should I upgrade my Slot 1 C300a to a socket370 Celeron 433 and overclocking it to at least an 83mhz bus work on my Asus P2B mobo? Sorry, but my origanal question keeps getting sideswiped into something else and well, I'd like to know Share this post Link to post
EddiE314 0 Posted January 23, 2000 if your board supports it....go for it go 433@500 or more Share this post Link to post
