Is this cheapest way to 4ghz+ with Intel?

I got fed up of the wife always using my AMD 64 3000 winnie PC for her browsing and storing of her music!(45gigs so far!!!). So I decided to build her a little pc she could run off the TV. I had a 56xcdrom, 256mb Twinmos PC3200, an 5 year old 10gig Western ATA66 hard drive, £15 case inc a 350watt psu and a Radeon 9550 excalibur 256mb vid card stuck up stairs in my back bedroom doing nothing. So I headed out to my local pc shop in Hull to pick up a mobo and a cpu. For £104 I got a Celeron 330J 2.66ghz cpu and an Asus P5p800 intel socket 775 board. I thought this would be a rock solid base for a stable pc for her.
Put it all together and it worked perfectly. I saw the bios had a few decent overclocking options and decided just too have a little tweak.

Woot!! do these Celerons Js clock high and cool!! Best have had is 4.2ghz at 210mhz x 20multi with ram at 1:1!! at Stock 1.4v in the bios using stock Intel cooler.
After a little testing using Prime 95 and 3dmark2001se this little beauty is stable at 4.04ghz .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/pcworks/405.jpg

I can do banzai runs at 4.2ghz but it isn't 3d stable. I think the board overvolts a bit but she runs very cool!!

Rob H

Nice! The celeron cpu's is nice to oc with.

My brother had allso a celeron but dosent want to oc much. this is a 2.93ghz it wont run stabel at 3.1ghz :( and he had watercooling on he's cpu

Sry my bad english

Nice basic O/Cing... With stock cooling :slobber:

Celeron is allways the best since my Celeron A 366@ 580Mhz :D

wow dude, that is in insane OC *drools* :slobber:

Any screenshot of that 4.2Ghz stock vcore? :slobber:

Will do some more banzai screenies.

rob H

However, a Sempron would easily beat a Celeron D and they're usually same price. As for Celeron vs Normal P4s, a 3.8Ghz Celeron D almost comes close to a stock 3.2Ghz P4 :rolleyes:

Perkam

This morning I couldn't bench at 4.2ghz, I could get into windows but it wasn't stable enough to bench.

Just rebooted the pc and went upto 4.2ghz (has been running all day1) and benched Sandra 2005 cpu bench with no probs at all.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v605/pcworks/420.jpg

Will post up the stepping and pack dates shortly.

Rob H

info from side of packaging.
Product code : bx80547re2667csl7tm
mm# 866287
FPO# Q502A512
Version# C85943-003 1.4v max Packdate 02/21/05

Pretty new silicon and it rocks. Maybe able to push this higher on stock cooler!!

Rob H

It's a bit like overclocking a Duron to 3ghz, it sounds fast but it isn't really.

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Originally Posted by alexio

It's a bit like overclocking a Duron to 3ghz, it sounds fast but it isn't really.

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Doesn't matter if it's fast or not, it's still a nice accomplishment, which should be rewarded with some gratitude, instead of remarks like this.

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It's a bit like overclocking a Duron to 3ghz, it sounds fast but it isn't really.

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please dont thread crap.

he wasn't thread crapping, he didn't even put the guy down, and hell this pc is for his wife lol. She WON'T be dissapointed I don't think. It is a good overclock though, gratz and on stock cooler at that. :toast:

very nice :clap: you beat my sempron 3100 by a little in cpu arith. NB at all. Good job.
http://www.x3lda.com/lmsdfts/yay.JPG

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Originally Posted by Jupiler

Doesn't matter if it's fast or not, it's still a nice accomplishment, which should be rewarded with some gratitude, instead of remarks like this.

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Sure it's nice, I didn't mean to put him down.

It's a nice overclock mate, but I think you knew that ;)

yeah... good job on the OC man... ofcourse if you wanted to spend a little more... you could get 1Mb L2 cache, and still not have hyperthreading... but still get good clocks (a little more cpu performance im sure (30sec SPI at 4.3ghz))

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...P1700/4400.jpg

gotta love these cpus huh

http://www.x3lda.com/lmsdfts/yayage.JPG
that is the best I can do on this board. budget cpu's are badass :banana: :woot:

Crazy xp1700, what cooling are you using on that Pentium 4 505 2.66ghz cpu. Saw one for sale OEM for £90 in the UK was very tempted.......

Rob H

Nice clockage (if that's even a word ;))...

nice clocks, the 256kb of L2 really holds these celerons back though, im sitting here temperearily with a 2.4 Celeron D that clocks comfortably at 3.6GHz witha Zalman 7700 ALCU, of course mines a 478 though.

Here's mine! Its a 2.4 so its even cheaper. Mine was $71 shipped from Newegg. The E0 stepping is a lot better.

http://www.devhardware.com/forums/at...tid=1112&stc=1

This stable, but anything over 225 it won't boot. Can't give it any more volts.

what cooling are you using on that thing?

Edit- And why isnt it reading the volts?

I just think the funniest thing I heard recently was...

your wife has 45 gigs of music, so you give her a 5 year old, slow 10 gig hard drive, hahah....

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The E0 stepping is a lot better.

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All 775 Celeron Ds are E0s ;)

Perkam

The new Celerons are good clockers and this confirms it. It does figure, however, considering they have much fewer transistors that need to make the grade at high clocks, increasing the odds of a good overclock.

What intrigues me is the fact that they're running significantly cooler than their Prescott cousins with the full 1 MB of L2. Maybe Prescott's heat problems lie in the cache...

It's all moot point though...even at 4.0GHz, they're still lackluster in terms of performance, and with their high multiplier, it's difficult to try to make up for the poor performance with FSB. Performance-wise, a good 3.0GHz or 3.2GHz E0 Prescott might not clock quite as high, but will wallop the Celeron even at a lower clock.

My $0.02...:)