help overclocking celeron 500

[invictus1997]

i have a celeron 500 on an abit be6II and i want to try and squeeze out some more juice out of it. in addition, i have sb live sound card, an internal diamondmax modem 128 MB of ram and a maxtor 72oorpm ata66 HD. i am wondering what settings some of you have in o/cking this cpu. i have the version of be6II that has the hpt 366 controller but i couldnt even get my cel 500 to run stable at 75 mhz bus. i tried to increase the multiplier to 8 and it went fine but didnt seem to make much impact either on performance. could you also share your benchmark tests.

[neo_otyugh]

the celeron 500 was not a good voerclocker. most that iahve seen were able to do 75 at best. some of em jsut wont overclock. the multiplier is locked on that cpu so all you can do it increase FSB. have you increased voltage at all and made sure you had good cooling?

[invictus1997]

i haven't really manipulated the voltage that much yet. the default voltage was at 2.0 cpu core that is. i;m afraid of increasing it any further since i don't have resources yet to buy a new cpu (i'm eyeing on a p3 700e or 750e) and i have no icea just how far i can manipulate my current cpu. i did try to increase the multiplier to 8 though but when you say it's locked, do you mean to say that it doesn't go higher than that despite of it being set and shown in the bios settings? furthermore, i am using the standard cooling as of now. we really don't have suppliers of cooling system here in the Philippines. i heard about the golden orbs and peltiers but no one sells them here and ordering online would simply kill you with the shipping cost.

[neo_otyugh]

the multiplier cannot be changed at all on that chip.
you could try increasing the voltage a little bit at a time, perhaps a half volt at a time..then run it and see if it boots and then put a good load on it to check for stability.
it may very well be that that chip will not overclock.

[invictus1997]

thanks a lot. i'll give it a try