Opinions about upgrading to a Celeron 1100

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:16 am

nah they just charge more for a longer time to milk all they can out of the people willing to buy them.

ts4967 · Post by **ts4967** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:01 pm

Thanks for the offer RRLedford, but I had a buddy of mine give me one from an old system he had where the mobo died.

When I was upgrading it, I went into the SOFT CPU settings to set the FSB and CPU voltage and noticed the multiplier only went up to 8 (8x100=800, right?). Well, I set it there and when it booted again, and it recognised it as a 1128 MHz CPU and booted into Windows XP Pro with no problem.

WCPUID saw it as the correct type of CPU, but said the FSB was 112 (?!?!?).

Is this normal??? It ran all of the 3D Mark benchmarking programs with no problems.

Should I believe the WCPUID when it says the FSB is 112???

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:40 pm

ts4967, if you are on a BP6, the 112MHZ FSB speed is not an option. The next increment after 110MHZ is 124MHz.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:55 am

RRledford...

anything is possible

at boot the CPU's say 550MHZ but every program that raads CPU speed sayd 585.....

ts4967 · Post by **ts4967** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 2:51 pm

That's what so weird about this. Either WCPUID is completely wrong or something funky is happening at the BIOS level.

I still think it's freaky that I can only go to 8x100Mhz in the BIOS and it sees it as a 1128MHz CPU.

The benchmarks I ran before and afterward show about a 20% increase in performance so it seems to be using the entire 1.1GHz, not just 800Mhz of the CPU. Nothing shows it as being under-clocked.

Hey, like they say- if it ain't broke, don't fix it. . .

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 6:18 pm

..... but it's always broke

hey.. if it's working and shows a considerable boost in performance.. don't touch it

don't breathe too hard.. don't look at it to hard