success rate Cel. 566@850

[Wilan Wong]

Was is the success rate of successfully o/c a Celeron 566 to 850? Just wondering since I was about to buy one. Any help would be great.

[Danny G]

The word low comes to mind. Requires wallops of cooling.

[Keermalec]

Get ready for a load of questions Danny:

Where did you buy your 566 from? (I see gamPC and Azzo have it out) What's the serial nb? How much cooling was that?

Overclockers.com has a database that should soon have a 566 entry. Many people will find this info very useful.
http://www.overclockers.com/ http://207.229.137.213/CPUdb/index.cfm

[lasa168]

Why buy a celeron when you can get a Piii-600E at onvia.com with coupon for $239.00 delivered. You are almost quaranteed 800. I keep mine at 800 but it will do 840. The $239.00 price is for a retail version. You know that Intel is probably using their lower quality batches for the celeron chips.

[Virtual Infinity]

See link
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/celeron566oc/default.asp

Allthough i've not read this, other reports indicate that overclocking is good. This is because of 0.18 (coppermine) fabrication which produces less heat and also the smaller amount of L2 cache means lower voltage required for CPU eg PIII600=1.65, CII600=1.50. This again means less heat produced. From what I've read massive amounts of cooling is not required mainly due to these product features. Check out a link I posted on Celeron 633@1000 from a few days ago for more info.

[Virtual Infinity]

http://www.tweak.cc/

566@882