i have a question...

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grumpy1

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im the low budget variety geek. not too many of us around anymore i reckon. chuckle. but anyway i read up on dirt cheap cpus for overclocking and generally thrashing and read that a celeron d 330 2.66 is a good overclocker. long story story short i bought one on ebay for about 25 bucks that runs good and is pretty snappy. my mobo is a biostar u8668d i know its slow but question is... my celeron wont overclock using the warpspeeder software that came with my mobo. i can manually overclock it in bios but am leary of doing so if warpspeeder cant overclock it. any thoughts? and does anyone know what temp is good for these things? i run about 35 celcius idle and up to about 45 or so on load. how would that temp affect overclocking?
 
your temps are fine, I can't see why the mobo couldn't OC it. Try it manually just a little bit, and see if you can. Just as a side note: the celeron's are junk, they may OC well but they aren't designed well...
 
Try and use the BIOS to overclock it. That is the best way to overclock.

If you really want to try and overclock within windows, Clockgen is a great program.
 
thanks for the input. for a minute i thought noone would answer. im glad you did. out of curiousity though.... i thought celerons were decent for a low price. what makes you think they are junk or not designed well? they are on the same platform as a pentium arent they?
 
i hear ya jet. this biostar board is solid but its not feature packed by any means. its real basic and a lot of software for overclocking it doesnt support it. that being said i would love more features and a better board but this board is solid and stable. i had good luck with my 1.8 celery i replaced and warpspeeder but no joy at all with this celeron d 2.66. i guess i just worry about temps.
 
well i used warpspeeder. i didnt use the auto though. that is the bit that didnt work. i bumped it up then tested and verified and set it that way. right now im at 2715 on it. my temp is 37 to 39 celcius idle no idea what load temp would be though probably 10 degrees hotter than that. are these temps ok?
 
Wow there...4 posts in a row! There's this cool feature called the "Edit" button....

Your temps are still fine..I don't know about the 67ºC max but generally under 55-60ºC load is fine.

And yes, Celeron's are on the same "platform" as the Pentiums, which are junk as well. The whole design and architecture was just structurally unstable, and, well, junk. Why do you think AMD CPU's had the advantage over Intel up until the Core 2 Duo?
 
Try downloading a program like Prime95 to check what your load temperatures are. You really want to keep the temperatures under 60C if possible, though 65C isn't the end of the world.
 
i figured out i cant overclock because on this board i can only change front side bus and not vcore. this board only supports 533 front side bus and that is what my celery runs at so i dont think i can overclock it on this board. i think that i have this board maxed.


soooo.......


anyone got a cheap socket 478 motherboard they would sell? chuckle.
 
im on disability and can barely pay my bills. that is not cheap... like 30 dollars shipped would be a stretch and 25 shipped would be cheap...
 
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