Need help overclocking an old Celeron 733mhz

Well, here I am, in the year 2007 using a 8-9 year old processor because I am too broke to get a gig of ram for my Athlon HP that I got for free.

It's an old Via, unsure of the model of mobo, but I've got it clocked at 913mhz from the stock 733. It is incredibly stable (although my hard drive isn't ), running cooler than my Athlon EVER does, (Try 10-20 degrees above room temp at most, ever.) and that leads me to believe that more is possible, a good bit more. I'd love to get 15-1600mhz out of it, as it would satisfy my gaming needs by a long shot, but I doubt the possibility of DOUBLING a processor's speed. :cry

What can I do? How much can I get out of it. Just dl'd RivaTuner to put the squeeze on my GeForce FX5200, and have softFSB dl'd and ready, with CPUFSB9 80% complete (dialup, arrgh). Hopefully that will smooth things out, but...

What do you think?

 

Welcome to MajorGeeks! Pretty impressive OC there. I don't have any experience with that CPU or board, but hopefully someone will be by soon to help you out with it. Good luck, hope you can get it cranked up a bit more.

E

 

Well, it will run games outside of it's supposed capabilities smoothly. (AOE III and Fable: The Lost Chapters)

But that might be the 128mb FX 5200 card talking. (Those games want 64mb cards)

Ah well, GT Legends won't run, and it's what I want. And I KNOW this thing can do better. Freaking 30 degree temps... Runs about HALF as hot as any Athlon I know of (Mine, my dad's, my cousin's).

C'mon, there's gotta be a way... I want to see a gigahertz.

I've got the FX on full freak, now to make that Celeron work for a living, eh?

 

Well, if it helps:

BIOS Type: Award
BIOS Date: March 19th 2001
BIOS ID: 03/19/2001-601-686B-6A6LID49C-00
BIOS OEM: 6.00 PG
Chipset: VIA 82C601 rev 5
SuperIO: VIA 686 rev 64 at pci 7
Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
Motherboard: VT8601
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2.0
Maximum Memory: 512MB
Installed Memory: 512MB
Memory Config: Slot1:256 Slot2:256 Slot3:0 Slot4:0

 

i cn help...im also on the same procie, but mine is running at 733mhz at 66mhz fsb...
i'll updte u on my oc project and if it runs perfectly at 1.463Ghz...

 

What FSB are you running? What speed / quality ram are you running? Have you ran something like rivatuners hardware monitor in the back ground to see exactly what is holding you back in games? My first gess would be its your ram holding you back. As far as your low CPU temps are concerned, P3s never did run hot overclocked or otherwise. Oh and nice nick .

 

I'm now running those games with a HP Pavillion 513x (AMD Athlon 1700xp+ and 256mb of DDR2100 ram) that I got for free from a neighbor.

Of course, I tossed in my FX 5200 and a Sound Blaster Audigy (Onboard's dead).

Lastly, it was (is) at 66mhz. Gave the power supply from it to my father as his killed itself.

~Kyle