Retail Celeron 633mhz...reports of successful OC to 950 mhz w/ stock HSF and default voltage.

[rdgr8]

You can have this cpu for $83.95 excluding tax.
Buy.com has this CPU for $103.95 minus $20 coupon(coupons are all gone for $100) plus Free Shipping equals nice deal to me.

This 633 mhz celery is reportedly being OC'd to 950mhz successfully with stock HSF and at default voltage.
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[/b]Update:

As of today, (there are no more working discount coupons for $100 at Buycom and their free shipping has just ended)the Onvia price for this cpu is now the best deal.
Check the forum abt this.

 

[MoneyMINTR]

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Celeron 633 @ buy.com

How good of an o/c can this chip be?

-MM

 

[squirrel dog]

not a very good o/cer.The multiplier has to be something like 9.5@100mhz.Maybe with freon....

 

[rdgr8]

I have no idea. Anybody here knows if this chip is a good overclocker?:frown:

 

[Sesopedalian]

If it is a good overclocker it wouldn't be in stock.

 

[fxsts]

I ordered one yesterday for my FlexATX second system and received it today. I got this for the following reasons.

1. There are no FlexATX board to run Duron.

2. It has gotten hard to find lower clocked retail Celeron II. I am still on backorder for CII 566 from Buy.com. Do you remember applying $50 off $500 coupon to Celeron 566. I posted the deal, and many people got it except myself. I think will never get it. I had also been on backorder for CII 600 with Onvia for a couple of weeks.

3. I hate buying OEM chips.

4. $90 including California tax is still not bad.


As far as overclocking goes, a Celeron 566 I have does 892.5Mhz stable with retail HS/fan, but I am not expecting to run CII 633 on 100Mhz FSB. I think the limit for most Celeron II would be somewhere between 800Mhz to 900Mhz.

Hence, I will probably use 75Mhz (712.5Mhz) or 83Mhz (807.5Mhz). If I am lucky, it may run on 90Mhz bus (855Mhz).

For $84 (or $90), it's not bad. However, Buy a Duron if you have money to spend on a SocketA motherboard.

Then, if you can get a cheap Intel 810 board like the one from Tekram, and you need a chip right now, this may not be bad. In fact, getting this might be better than CII 600 which do not probably do 900Mhz anyway.

For information, I got
SL3W9 Malaysia week 26 packed on 8/20/00

I will update with the result.

 

[oblivion2888]

FUC WHY DO I LIVE IN CALI!!

 

[cmv]

If you want a retail Celeron II 566 get one from googlegear. I just got two of them for like $22x.00 shipped 2 day fedex. Both are at running at 850mhz w/ 1.8v.

Just checked their site (www.googlegear.com) and it's at $90, they charge too much shipping of course but nobody seems to be close to this (that is a decent vendor) for retail chips...

 

[fxsts]

OK,

As I expected, I can only get 855Mhz using 90Mhz FSB at 1.65V although it's pretty stable. My Abit SE6 does not have 95Mhz FSB, so I do not know if it works on it. At 100Mhz bus, it does not post even at 1.85V.

You will pay about $20 more through Google gear for CII 566. It's tough to say which is better. For California residents, Googlegear also charges the sale tax and makes the total price to be $110 which might be a bit more than what you want to pay when you consider the prices for PIII. 855Mhz on 90Mhz will be a bit slower than 850Mhz on 100Mhz. Well, it's a tough call.


oblivion2888,

Well, sales tax sucks for California, but look at the bright side. We got beaches. The sun shines almost every day throughout the year. Girls are not as heavy as those in Mid West (of course generally speaking). Traffic sucks, and things are expensive, but you should still feel lucky living in California, or at least I do.

 

[Lark888]

googlegear has Intel retail box 700 flip chip for $187. Does anyone know if these are cB0 stepping. Seems like a good price. Lark

 

[BillyRay]

I would like to get this for my girlfriend's box, but she has a Slot 1 motherboard. Does anyone know of a place with the slotket/adapter thingies in stock for a decent price? Onvia is out and I can't find them on Buy.

Pretty phat deal...

Thanks....

 

[rdgr8]

fxsts,
Thanks for the info. This cpu is good enough for my kids computer.
It has a P11 266 cpu right now so this is a good upgrade. I have a Tekram slocket...hopefully, it will work with the Asus P2BF mobo.

BillyRay,
Check with Fry's Electronic Store...they use to carry Iwill Slotket which is a pretty decent adapter.

 

[BillyRay]

Unfortunately, I am on the East Coast so no Fry's... I saw Tekram has an adaptor on their page for $25 or something, but the motherboard was only $50 so it seems dumb to pay that much for a slotket...especially since Tekram online's shipping is often somewhat high.

 

[junkleo]

fxsts, forget your celeron 566 from Buy.com. After 2-month waiting, I sent request to buy.com, here is their reply:

Thank you for contacting us at buy.com, the internet superstore.

Our supplier recently informed us that the product you ordered (CELERON
566MHZ 128K L2 CACHE PGA370 PROCESSOR 3 YR WARRANTY) is no longer
available. Please accept our sincere apologies for this inconvenience.

Your order for this product has been automatically cancelled and your
credit card will not be charged.

Thank you for shopping at the internet superstore.

buy.com
Customer Support Team


Waste my $10 new customer coupon and 2-month waiting. Cancelled it and bought it from Next Generation right away after read the above email.

 

[fxsts]

If you are looking for a slocket, I strongly recommend you to get either MSI or Asus. I have tried ones from those two together with Iwill and Abit. Both IWill and Abit come with a good structure which works well with older Slot 1 boards' retention stand. However, MSI and Asus seemed to do better when you overclock. At same speed, they require less voltage to run stable.

Saying that, I have noticed that it's harder to get MSI and Asus slockets online. I do not know about Tekram slocket, but I know that their products usually have pretty good quality.



junkleo,

I know that sucked. It was even worse when I saw people ordering their chips and getting them after seeing my post. I was even getting warm appreciations from people for posting the deal. It was sarcastically stupid. I believe that I was one of the first to order one but didn't get it. People ordering a couple of days or more later got them. That made me a little more careful when I post good deals here. I learned that I have to secure my own first before people start jumping on the deal.

 

[Slikkster]

I'd definitely do the googlegear.com thing for RETAIL-BOXED Celerons (Not OEMs) that are reasonable considering they are one of the few vendors with them in stock. I just got a Celeron 600 (actually, picking it up from Fedex today after work) retail model for $109 shipped. That's more than I wanted to spend, but everyone else either has OEMs or out of stock on the Celerons altogether.

I think 600's about as high as I'd go to try to overclock, due to the increasing multipliers as mentioned earlier in this thread. I'll post my results of overclocking tonight. Replacing a Celeron 366 OC'd to 550 with this 600, and hoping for 900mhz stable.

Edit: By the way, that $109 reflects Fedex 2-day shipping, only slightly higher than regular ground cost.

 

[Biel]

what's a good CHEAP motherboard to put this puppy on???

 

[SUOrangeman]

I chickened out and got a retail C2-533 from Buy. I haven't heard of much success from C2-600 or more. I really wanted C2-667@1000, but haven't heard much about it.

-SUO

 

[Finality]

You are better off getting a 550E P3 processor. You get more performance at the same price.

 

[WhiteMouse]

PIII 550E?

I just can't find a place to get it cheaper (or same price) than this Celeron.

Also, my PC100 memory may not work on 133

 

[fxsts]

SUOrangeman,

Did you get C533 or C633? If the one you got from Buy.com was Celeron 533, that's the older, non-Coppermine version. In fact, Intel never made retail boxed C2 533A.


Finality,

I agree. I think spending $80 to $90 is OK for Celeron. But if you spend $110 to $120, it gets fairly close to PIII pricing. Celeron 850Mhz performs similar to PIII700 or 750, and almost all the Coppermine PIII can get at least that speed regardless of their marked speed. I bought my retail C2 566 in Japan back in the end of May when it first came out and spent $110 for it. It was OK then, but spending the same amount for the same chip 5 months later is a little too much for me.

 

[divide by zero]

Tekram has a mobo on sale for 49.95
S381-M+

 

[cmv]

I agree $110 for a 566mhz Celeron might be a bit high but here is why I got the Celeron instead of PIII:

1) PC100 ram is all I have and I don't want to upgrade
2) 66mhz = standard bus speed, 100mhz = standard bus speed,
133mhz is a standard too but see #1 and I'd rather not push my RAM

Basically I needed two cpus quickly and my $89 shipped 566mhz from buy.com (ordered on June 27th) never shipped (I cancelled right before ordering these). I also ordered a Celeron 500mhz from them on June 28th and I cancelled that too...

If I didn't have the Slot 1 and Socket 370 motherboards already I would have gone with the a Duron.

 

[zeppelin]

The 633s have the permanent multiplier lock, right? And the FSB is the only means of achieving CPU overclocking, right?

Had been eyeing this processor because of price (which conveniently put it over the $100 mark so I can apply a coupon) ... and then once it went "In Stock" I quickly picked one up. Still the price is great ... especially being a Retail Box Version.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Yeah, I did get the 533 and I cannot clearly tell if it will flip-chip. They list 600 and above in the same exact manner as the 533 I ordered. It's not in stock as it is anyway. If Intel has stopped making the 533A, I'd doubt they's till be making the non-FCPGA 533. Maybe by the time they figure it, the price on something else will have dropped (say that 667 that is capable of hitting 1G. ).

-SUO