Celeron D 326 2.53Ghz Skt 775 - Possible Clocks?

Gommsta · 28 Jun 2006 at 22:08

Hi,

I've managed to pick one of these up really cheaply and am going to run it in a secondary system as a media centre. However i would like to overclock it as best i can to get that extra bang for my tuppence

Do these clock well? badly? what sort of clock should i be expecting and what sort of temps these chips run at? I'm looking for it to go into a SFF case u see.

Many thanks to all

Gommsta

Raikiri · 28 Jun 2006 at 22:13

Well they should do very high clocks, 19x multi @ 200FSB would be 3.8ghz and shouldnt be too dificult to do. Get a decent quiet cooler for it though.

Gashman · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:20

is that the celeron varient with EM64T, on 775 im assuming its a prescott core, 800FSB should be achievable with a decent aftermarket cooler, like a slightly slower version of a 3.8Ghz pentium, its the exact same processor bar its had its cache chopped

Gommsta · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:25

Hi, yes, its the variant with EM64T.
This is all good news to me

*Opens head and waits for knowledge to pour in* lol

Raikiri · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:26

Freezer 7 pro should be able to handle the heat without problem, what motherboard do you have?

edit/saw the sff bit, shuttle or just micro atx?

Gommsta · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:35

Well, to cut a long story short, i was given a micro BTX board and was somehow looking to mod that to fit into a SFF case (theres a thread in the SFF forum). It's only an Intel 915G thing but it was free. If that won't work however then i'd look at buying an mATX board.
As mentioned, i'm looking to build a media centre pc, my main rig is for games, but if i could somehow clock this thing decently then maybe i could play some stuff on that one too. More basic games i guess.

I just love tweaking about with the bits n bobs and was wondering what to expect as I have very little recent Intel experience. You lot have me addicted

Raikiri · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:56

I dont thinnk a 915 chipset will have a huge amount of overclocking options

**B Grade** Abit AL8 Intel 945P (LGA775) PCI-Express Motherboard (BG-082-AB)
Price: £40.00 (£47.00 Including VAT at 17.5%)

decent board and quite cheap, also supposrts the 9xx/9xx series for future upgrades

If it has to be Micro ATX then the LG-81 is a good choice also from abit but they are around £70.