old school celeron

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 11:26

How far could I push an old school Celeron. Cpu-z is telling me its a Coppermine-T and at stock should run at 1ghz. I've already got it at 1.24 on what I can only assume is stock voltage (1.76v) as I don't think I have the option to change it in my bios.
I'm running an old DFI motherboard (CW35-L).

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 15:25

Cheers, I've had a little play, but it won't go above 1.33 ghz (133x10) due to the multiplier not going over 10. It says 11 and 12 in the bios, but when set to these and booted into windows, cpu-z says 10x. Any ideas? It seems to be quite stable at 1.33ghz though, which is good (by my standards)

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 18:10

No, got the fsb to 133, there are 2 other options, 140, and 150, but at 10x neither would post.

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 19:00

Cheers, I don't think I have any options for changing the voltage (this board is quite a few years old) but I'll take a look. and I think the memory settings are also very limited, but there are some available so i'll also test them out.
I don't think 1.33ghz is too bad out of a 6 year old cpu that hasn't been used in over 2 years

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:01

Well, its actually a play thing at the moment, but it may be going in my car for a carpc

. Just trying to get as much out of it as possible

Captain Kirk · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:13

OK, just had one last look (only have 1 monitor cable so have to keep switching between this pc and the celeron) and the ram timings are the loosest (is that a word?) they can be at 3-3-3-6 and I can't change the voltages at all. May have to see if its because it is a fujitsu-siemens computer and they have modified the bios. Also tried 150x9 but it wouldn't boot.
The only thing is it doesn't have a floppy drive attached, can you update the bios via usb?