Best OC CPU ever??

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cloudkat

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Not sure if this should be here or in the Intel CPU section. If it needs to be, would a moderator please move it.

I ran across this on eBay as I was looking for a new CPU for my old laptop.

Item number: 180072493904 (tried to post a link but it is like 150 characters long, so you will just have to search for the item number)

The guy posts some links to forums and stuff telling about people who overclocked this 2.6 P4 up to 3.7 on STOCK AIR !!

So, even if it can do only part of what it says it can do, I may grab it. I have a mobo capable of OC'ing it. This may be a nice chip to play with.

What do you guys think??
Anyone ever had any experience with this chip?? If so, how did it do??
What do you guys think this chip would be worth??
 
get a conroe it will be faster, my e6400 has gone from 2.13 -> 3.15ghz a 1ghz overclock on stock air so the 1.1ghz overclock ain't that big of a deal especially when at stock it would beat a 3.7ghz P4.
 
Celeron D 320 2.4@4.0 :p

I've also had...

Pentium 4 2.4C@3.4
Celeron 600@1035
Pentium II 350@542

...Those are my personal best overclocks.
 
Well, it's an outdated P4... frankly it's clockspeed means jack shit.

As a trivial overclocking toy, maybe under $100. Not anything special anymore.
 
djBon2112 said:
Well, it's an outdated P4... frankly it's clockspeed means jack shit.

As a trivial overclocking toy, maybe under $100. Not anything special anymore.
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Yea, pretty much...

Although its a good overclock, its far from the greatest even for a Northwood. I've seen 2.4C's hit 3.7.
 
yeah, in terms of percentage, the E6300 has on occasion hit a 100% overclock (3.72Ghz). per centage wise I doubt your gonna find a much better a deal then that. I managed 3.6 on P21 Bios of the EVGA 680i board. The problem is, once i updated to P23, my overclock got flushed down the toilet, now im max at 3.2. pissing me off because i now KNOW this cpu can do 3.5. Comon phenoix, EVGA, and Nvidia, lets get these bios issues sorted out! I have faith in this board, its a sweet overclocker, i just wish they could get it working!

but ultimatly, if you looking to pack a punch on a buget, the DS3 and an E6300 is just a wicked sick combo. Rev 2 will support 16 - 4 Crossfire, and they overclock like mofos. DS3 has, up until 680i, been the overclocking paramount. 975X is nice n' all but, imho, they could use a refreash in wich the memory controller got a little bit of an upgrade.

Oh yeah another mobo worth mentioning is the brand new hyped-but-seems-to-me-not-bought DFI Lanparty UT ICFX3200. Anand stated 511 @ 7X multiplier. I dont know if it was an X6800 or an E6300 but, one of the two, either way is a sweet clock.

Course the D805 for $90 at newegg hit 3.8 on air at tomshardware. They currently hold the world record for highest clock on a D805 over there I think.... Donno the mobo.
 
what kind of memory will that use? fsb?

probably enough of a bottleneck to eliminate benefits of the higher clock speed.
 
I agree with everyone less get a E6300 and you will be much happier.

My P3E hits 840MHz which is pretty good considering it's only 600MHz stock.
 
Not worth pursuing in my opinion - invest in an E6300 and a new m/b instead. Would stomp all over that chip - even if you didn't overclock, which is so easy to do it's laughable.

As to the answer to your thread topic question:

The best overclocking chip ever is the Intel Celeron 300a. (300Mhz stock - I had mine up to around 940Mhz) So well over a 3X overclock!!! Was the king of overclocking chips back in its day. That was a few years ago though... 1998 or so... heh.
 
Um guys... he was just looking at this chip to play with, not as a serious computer investment. Read the OPs post.
 
Im sorry OP, its usually a good idea to read the first post before contributing :p.

Anywho, first off, people claiming OCs on e-bay without CPU-ID varification, are probibly scammers. If he cant supply some screenies or generate some sort of varification from CPU-Z. I would stay away from this guy. You buy the CPU. you plug it into your mobo (which could be a problem,Gelatino and Northwood are PGA 478, Prescott and Cedar Mill are LGA 775) and you try to oc to that speed. It makes it to maybe 3.1 or 3.2. He claims its your motherboard, you have no way to prove him wrong.

Get more info from him. I could see a northwood and ceader mill doing 3.7GHz on air, but a Prescott would get way too hot, and a gelatino would be about as stable as Mel Gibson.

and also, Hard forum java can handle URLs that are 150 characters long, just script it to a word like "here"
 
Supercharged_Z06 said:
The best overclocking chip ever is the Intel Celeron 300a. (300Mhz stock - I had mine up to around 940Mhz) So well over a 3X overclock!!! Was the king of overclocking chips back in its day. That was a few years ago though... 1998 or so... heh.
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I think you are thinking of a Celeron 600, the 300a's generally would do between 450-600. I think over 900 would be out of the question.
 
There is no way a Celeron 300 could hit 940. I'm pretty sure there are no motherboards that could run a Slot 1 or PPGA 300A at FSB208 in order to hit that, and there is also no ram that could handle that speed. I'm going to go so far as to say you couldn't even hit that speed supercooling with LN2.
 
Sgraffite said:
I think you are thinking of a Celeron 600, the 300a's generally would do between 450-600. I think over 900 would be out of the question.
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Ok, I think I may have gotten an old P3 overclock confused with my 300a... hey, it was almost 9 years ago! Plus my birthday was last week and I'm getting old. (41 :p )

On that 300a I had, I was using this crazy Swiftech slot one TEC heatsink that weighed a ton that was outfitted with dual peltier and 4 mil-spec fans. Sounded like a small Lear jet whenever I fired it up. Heheh. Perhaps it was only 450mhz or so...
 
cloudkat said:
What do you guys think this chip would be worth??
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I don't care what it clocks to. It's still a P4 and therefore worth $75 max in my book (I didn't check it out online to see what it went for).
 
It absolutely was the Celeron 300a... I had one as well. Man that was back in the day :) Ran 24/7 stable at 933MHz. When I used Peltier cooling I got it up to 1015MHz. Definitely my pick for highest overclock ever...
 
d7a7z7e7d said:
It absolutely was the Celeron 300a... I had one as well. Man that was back in the day :) Ran 24/7 stable at 933MHz. When I used Peltier cooling I got it up to 1015MHz. Definitely my pick for highest overclock ever...
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You're either joking or mistaken because there is no way that was a Celeron 300A.
 
You can't just go by percentage overclock

Overclocking for most of us at least is supposed to be a "value proposition"

The E6300 is not a good value because you need to use memory that will run at 1000 MHz or more so you can set the CPU clock at 500, so your E6300 can reach 3500 MHz.

So you are talking about putting $400 memory sticks in there in order to reach 1000 MHz when you could have used $200 memory sticks if you went with the E6400. And the E6400 only costs $30 bucks more than the E6300. If you save $30 on the CPU but have to spend $200 more on the memory that is not such a good deal IMHO.

I am getting 1600 MHz overclock with my E6400 @ 3760 MHz.
 
E6400 is a great CPU to overclock with the cost of money.
 
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