Sounds like the salesman wanted to sell you something else.
I have a Celeron 300A that I bought in mid-October -- I haven't checked the s/n for place
or date of manufacture. I have not had success getting it to be stable at 450mhz but have
no problem with it at 374mhz (83 x 4.5 locked multiplier) at 1.9v. I tried switching
voltage setting all the way up to 2.3 and placing the 128mb of Ram in different dinn slots
but could never get it to settle down at 450.
I would recommend an Abit board (if I recall correctly I have a BH-6) because it easily
allows for changes to the BIOS, including voltage changes, right from their Soft-Menu and
has an extra PCI slot. Get good quality Ram -- if you can afford Cas2 Ram get it because
it may reduce overclocking headaches later.
The salesman may have been referring to the fact that the Celeron 300A (not sure about the
plain 300 without the 128k on-die cache, but I think it is the same case) has a fixed
multiplier of 4.5 and therefore one variable in ease of overclocking is reduced (i.e. you
can change the MoBo speed to 66, 83, 100, 112 etc. but cannot change the multiplier that
acts on this number to give you your final CPU speed).
Either he was trying to direct you to another product or is simply mis-informed. The
Celeron 300A has become the gamer's choice for overclocking because it is much, much less
expensive that a full out PII chip but has similar performance where games are concerned.
Stick with the 300A and *not* the plain 300 because you do want the limited cache and you
won't see much benefit by moving up to the new 333.
Cheers,
Gian.
> Hi all,
> I want to upgrade my system for GPL, hope this reduces the flames
> because being off topic.
> I was informed (in a computer-shop) that the actual celeron 300A is
> not overclockable anymore.
> He dated the change to August 98.
> Is he telling nonsense?
> As I know, the only change around this time was the introduction of
> the 300A additionally to the 300.
> Now I get quite scary to buy this CPU.
> Please everybody:
> Post if you got an 300A which is not overclockable
> and
> also post if you were able to overclock your 300A
> Thanks in advance.
> Jens
> BTW: those who weren't able to overclock their 300A because they don't
> own one, should not post.
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