Safely overclocking a humble 500MHz Celeron

External Since: Sep 29, 2003 Posts: 2

Hey guys

I own a Celeron 500MHz (purchased late 1999) that needs some balls.
I'm new to overclocking having never touched on the subject in my
life, but I'm game to give it a shot. Anyway, I was wondering how far
I could push this thing (safely) with the addition of a case fan (on
the side as an intake) and a larger heatsink and more powerful CPU
fan.
Also, to overclock I need to play with the BIOS settings correct? -(IE
that menu that the user can choose to open before the computer boots
into the operating system) ... Well for some reason I cannot open this
menu up at all. There is no visual clue as to what button I should
press or when. This is pretty much all that happens:
* [Power button depressed]
* "Packard Bell" screen appears
* [Around 10 seconds passes] <- Shouldn't I see something
here?!?
* [System boots into Windows XP Pro]

Okay to sum all this crap up...
1) How far can I push this rig?
2) How the hell do I find my BIOS menu?
3) Approximately how much is a new CPU heatsink? (which will pretty
much determine whether i go to all the trouble or not Razz

)

Thanks in advance to anyone who posts a reply...

g00n

External Since: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 28

Hi
Not very far I'm afraid
The ppga celerons generally max out at 550-600Mhz
Which means changing front side bus to 68Mhz for 510Mhz
or 75MHz for 562Mhz.83Mhz front side bus would be 624Mhz
but most hard drives would throw a wobbly at the 41.6Mhz
pci speed.In all honesty probably not worth the effort or money to overclock.

To get into the bios try pressing "DEL" key or F1 or F2 key when the machine starts

You may find being a HP there is no way to change the front side bus anyway
Do you know if the board takes just PPGA celerons or FCPGA as well?

Motherboard model no?

Smiffy