Intel clock frequency?

I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it showed Intel
Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133 (before it was just FSB
control disabled, nothing about current frequency). Now at start it shows
Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set to
133/266 . MOBO is Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc, sorting
etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX

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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it showed Intel
Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133 (before it was just FSB
control disabled, nothing about current frequency). Now at start it shows
Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set
to
133/266 . MOBO is Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc, sorting
etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz FSB.
However, they do overclock easily very often by a large margin. My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full load. I've
modified my case to duct external air straight to the CPU fan, her's is a
microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it showed
Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133 (before it was
just FSB control disabled, nothing about current frequency). Now at
start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM frequency 354 MHz. In
BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz
FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a large margin.
My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock
solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full load.
I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the CPU fan,
her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120, it should
be OK...
I just thought that all nowaday CPUs use 133 MHz...
Thanks!

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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it showed
Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133 (before it was
just FSB control disabled, nothing about current frequency). Now at
start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM frequency 354 MHz. In
BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz
FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a large margin.
My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock
solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full load.
I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the CPU fan,
her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120, it
should
be OK...


Not necessarily. 100 and 133MHz are standard frequencies with the PCI bus
remaining at 33MHz. At intermediate frequencies it may not stay that way. On
my wife's PC even a 5% increase in PCI frequency will make the on-board
sound interface disappear.


I just thought that all nowaday CPUs use 133 MHz...


No, upper end CPUs nowadays are 166 or 200MHz.

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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it
showed Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133
(before it was just FSB control disabled, nothing about current
frequency). Now at start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM
frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is
Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz
FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a large margin.
My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock
solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full
load. I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the
CPU fan, her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120, it
should be OK...


Not necessarily. 100 and 133MHz are standard frequencies with the PCI
bus remaining at 33MHz. At intermediate frequencies it may not stay
that way. On my wife's PC even a 5% increase in PCI frequency will
make the on-board sound interface disappear.


I just thought that all nowaday CPUs use 133 MHz...


No, upper end CPUs nowadays are 166 or 200MHz.

So, try and see is only thing to do. I just learned one thing more...

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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it
showed Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133
(before it was just FSB control disabled, nothing about current
frequency). Now at start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM
frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is
Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz
FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a large margin.
My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock
solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full
load. I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the
CPU fan, her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120, it
should be OK...


Not necessarily. 100 and 133MHz are standard frequencies with the PCI
bus remaining at 33MHz. At intermediate frequencies it may not stay
that way. On my wife's PC even a 5% increase in PCI frequency will
make the on-board sound interface disappear.


I forgot to tell...like my (old) Soyo Dragon + mobo, which can be
overclocked up to 233 M in 1 M increments (note that at time it was made 133
CPU's were highest available), but in practice it all stops at 145 M or so,
because chipset and other minor stuff begins to fail or freeze at higher
freq. What a ****ing liars they are!!! But it runs perfect at 140 M and
overall is a solid mobo. I never overclocked too much anyway. I guess i'm
too afraid...

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So, try and see is only thing to do. I just learned one thing more...


All babies do it naturally, its called suck-it-and-see approach.

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IS this setting correct ?

By factory defaults, no. However, if it works fine, than if should be ok.


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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it
showed Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133
(before it was just FSB control disabled, nothing about current
frequency). Now at start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM
frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is
Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e. 100MHz
FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a large
margin. My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been rock
solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full
load. I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the
CPU fan, her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120, it
should be OK...


Not necessarily. 100 and 133MHz are standard frequencies with the PCI
bus remaining at 33MHz. At intermediate frequencies it may not stay
that way. On my wife's PC even a 5% increase in PCI frequency will
make the on-board sound interface disappear.


I just thought that all nowaday CPUs use 133 MHz...


No, upper end CPUs nowadays are 166 or 200MHz.

So, try and see is only thing to do. I just learned one thing more...

Why not just leave it at 133? That is the sensible thing to do.
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I just got a PC from a friend to sort out a bit. At bootup it
showed Intel Celeron 2.2G. I went into BIOS, set FSB to 133
(before it was just FSB control disabled, nothing about current
frequency). Now at start it shows Celeron 2.93 G and below DRAM
frequency 354 MHz. In BIOS RAM freq is set to 133/266 . MOBO is
Gigaset GA-8PE800 Ultra.

After more than half hour of work(like defrag, working with disc,
sorting etc), temp is 41 degrees, so it's not overheating.
IS this setting correct ?
THX


All socket 478 Celerons to date are 400MHz quad pumped, i.e.
100MHz FSB. However, they do overclock easily very often by a
large margin. My wife's
2.4 has been running at 3.4 for months, my own P4-2.8 has been
rock solid at
3.5GHz for some months too. Neither of them exceeds 45C at full
load. I've modified my case to duct external air straight to the
CPU fan, her's is a microATX desktop case with an extra fan added.

So, i guess if i set FSB to some moderate value, like 112 or 120,
it should be OK...


Not necessarily. 100 and 133MHz are standard frequencies with the
PCI bus remaining at 33MHz. At intermediate frequencies it may not
stay that way. On my wife's PC even a 5% increase in PCI frequency
will make the on-board sound interface disappear.


I just thought that all nowaday CPUs use 133 MHz...


No, upper end CPUs nowadays are 166 or 200MHz.

So, try and see is only thing to do. I just learned one thing more...

Why not just leave it at 133? That is the sensible thing to do.

Good question. Since it's not my PC, and still under warranty, i wonder what
will happen if CPU dies. However, from i've seen now, PC runs hell a lot
faster so, it's really good question...