I once read in a book on overclocking that celerons may have been "lower-quality", but they also responded better to overclocking.

Anyway, since I have a working celeron now, I figure I'll push it up a little.

Specs: 1.1ghz Celeron (Tualeron) 100mhz bus (so 11x multiplier)

Now, this thing is usually pretty cool. So far I haven't seen it rise over 30 degrees Celcius. Mind you, I haven't done any gaming on it or anything. Right now I'm running benchmarks to see if I can get it to heat up a bit.

In the BIOS, I can modify the bus speed. The default is 100 and the maximum is 132. I'll start with a 10mhz bump and watch the temperatures. But first I'll run a couple of games to see how hot this thing can get.

I hear that upping the bus speed can interfear (sp?) with PCI devices and sometimes hard drives or AGP things. Anybody know specifics on this?

Any suggestions? Besides telling me to look at the faq/guides.

Thanks.

I got it to a 120mhz bus, and did stuff like browse the internet, explore my hard drive and then run directx and other video card benchmarks. When doing the processor testing I did benchmarks for the processor, L1 cache and L2 caches in quick sucession.

It hasen't even gone over 30 degrees Celcius. The fan speed did increase a little though.

But when I pushed it to a 128mhz bus (1.4 ghz) it would get stuck during various stages of startup. (I think you call that "not posting" right?).

Anyway. I'm gonna try for 125 now.

I want teh power.

Nice!

I hope you can squeeze that bit out, are you going to try better cooling ato see how far you can push it or are you just trying to see how far you can push it stock?

Well it seems that 125 is bad too.

The thing would probably respond better with better cooling, but at 1.375 ghz it won't get terribly hot doing benchmarks.

I'm thinking of overclocking the video card too, but only after I've got one of those PCI slot fans, that'll blow air directly onto the card.