Author: Sarah Bird
Date: 14:26:55 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 16:56:01, Robin Smith wrote: >On July 02, 1999 at 16:00:53, Derek Bays wrote: > >>On July 01, 1999 at 19:34:30, Robin Smith wrote: >> >>>A Celeron running at both the same processor and memory bus speeds should be >>>about the same for chess as a P III at the same clock speed. For small, fast >>>programs like Fritz the Celeron even has a slight edge due to it's full speed >>>cache. >>> >>>A really good, fairly inexpensive chess computer can be made by taking a 300A >>>Celeron and over-clocking to the equivalent of 450 Mhz. I have successfully >>>built 3 such machines and every one over-clocked just fine. >>> >>>For slow search, large knowledge programs the bigger cache size of the AMD >>>processor is probably the best. >> >> >>Hello Mr. Smith, What type of motherboard were you using with your Celerons? >>I am ordering an ASUS P2-99B and I will attempt to overclock my 366A to >>400+ MHZ any suggestions as to mainboards or settings? >> >>Thanks in advance, -Derek > >I used both Abit BM6 and Abit BH6. Both are designed with over-clockers in >mind. ASUS also has good motherboards, but I have not used them. Ironically >the 300A has better results as an overclocker if you want to get to a 100MHz FSB >speed because you can't change the internal multiplier on Celerons and the 300A >is only 4.5X. The 366A, at 5.5X clock multiplier, could never get to 100MHz FSB >speed (it would have to run internally at 550MHz!). I also use a celery !! to end this subject if you want to o/c your cel check. http://www.overclockers.com/ http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/ http://triptonics.hypermart.net/lab/ http://home.tampabay.rr.com/jbogush/ Sarah
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