I got my CPU upgrade! finally! :-)

[dZeus]

I went out and bought a Coppermine 700 today, to replace my Celeron 366 @ 550MHz... FINALLY!

When i was home I saw that it is running at 1.7 core voltage... a sign of Intel trying to keep up with AMD's yields? who knows...
but it does 933MHz at 1.7v anyway, while I even have one PC100 stick in my pc (one pc100 and one pc133 128MB DIMM).

You probably already know that I am running Win2k... I did some testing to see wether the performance would increase linear (14/11 times the old performance), or even more, because I now have a CPU with SSE.

The 3DMark score increased more than linear (because of SSE), but Q3A at 800x600x16 bit with bilinear filtering (everything else at max, and cg_drawFPS and timer to 1, timdemo demo001) only increased linear (from 42fps to 53fps). the 1024x768x32 score was exactly the same as with 550MHz... time to overclock that G400 vanilla?

At 133MHz FSB my AGP runs at 1x, and the 3DMark score dropped a LOT!... I now forced it to 2x, and will test the new score (and post it here).

At 700MHz I got 2800 for 3DFarq 2000 at default benchmark settings

[dZeus]

at 933MHz, 3DFarq 2000 gives 1900 with 1x AGP, and 3000 with forced 2x AGP :P

hmm... time for the Win2k drivers to catch up with the Win9x drivers in the speed department!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

nice going dZeus. is that 1.7V default? if not you may have the newest cCo stepping!
enjoy

[ayoub_ibrahim]

sorry,meant if default was 1.7V then it's probably a cCo stepping. what are the chip markings?

[dZeus]

SL4CH or something... what program can I use to see the stepping? WCPUID didn't seem to give that info.

[dZeus]

It's SL4CH, which is _NOT_ mentioned on the cpu reference list on the Intel site... stepping info: Model 8, stepping 6

is this the CC0 revision? where can I find that info?

I do know that it does 933 completely stable without voltage adjustment on my pc, cooled by a GOlden Orb. However, I don't intent to push it much further, because I like to run PCI in spec (and my memory not too much out of spec).

[dZeus]

found it... it's a cC0 stepping as Intel calls it:
http://support.intel.com/design/Pent...qit/update.pdf (page 4)

[The PIT]

You maybe able to hit a gig if your memory can take it. I had to push my 800 up to 1.75 to make it but it's happy and surprisingly doesn't get hot.

[MK]

Good choice, dZeus. I did an upgrade too, but a cheaper one than you.

Bought a Celeron II 566 MHz (Coppermine core incl. SSE but with 128k 4-way associative cache, serial number SL46T) a few weeks ago and cranked it up to 900 MHz (105*8.5=892MHz). Core temperature is 40°C in idle running and 65°C in gaming.

Thats what I call a bang for the buck !
Now I´m waiting for the G800 and Colin McRae Rally (the reason for the upgrade :-) which seems to hit the shelves waaay before Matrox`s next gen card on December 1st. But I am sure the G800 is worth waiting even if its going to be February...

MK

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EPoX BX7+100, Celeron II 566@900 MHz (8.5x105), 128 MB PC133, G400 16MB SH (Bios 1.3-22,PD 5.52, TurboGL V1.3), on board Highpoint U-ATA100 RAID controller, IBM DPTA 20,0GB U-ATA100, Iomega ZIP100, SB PCI128, Mitsumi CR-4801TE, Pioneer 36x slot-in, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400, Plustek OpticPro 9636T, HP 930C, Win`98 SE

[ayoub_ibrahim]

quoted from MK: Core temperature is 40°C in idle running and 65°C in gaming.
What sort of cooling are you using for that chip? seems a bit too hot for my liking!

[MK]

Uuups - you think thats too hot ? I thought Intel specifies 80°C as max. core temperature for that kind of processor. So I should be within the spec, correct me if I`m wrong.

The cooling device is a pretty expensive (at least here in Germany) "Pabst"-cooler with thermal pastry.

MK

[This message has been edited by MK (edited 02 November 2000).]

[MK]

Is 65°C now o.k. or not ?

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EPoX BX7+100, Celeron II 566@900 MHz (8.5x105), 128 MB PC133, G400 16MB SH (Bios 1.3-22,PD 5.52, TurboGL V1.3), on board Highpoint U-ATA100 RAID controller, IBM DPTA 20,0GB U-ATA100, Iomega ZIP100, SB PCI128, Mitsumi CR-4801TE, Pioneer 36x slot-in, Iiyama Vision Master Pro 400, Plustek OpticPro 9636T, HP 930C, Win`98 SE

[dZeus]

my Golden Orb costed 40 DM here

and 65 degrees celcius is hot (probably not too).. none of my cpus ever went over 55 degrees

This is of no concern, unless your computer crashes under heavy workload

[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 03 November 2000).]

[ayoub_ibrahim]

MK,I agree that your temperature is within intel specs but what I am suggesting is it's hotter than I'd expect from a presentday intel chip. with an orb, my p3 850@1020 never goes above 38C under full load.

[thecurse]

i just got my new cpu yesterday.

piii 933 flip chip with the abit flip chip to slot 1 adapter to use it in my be6-ii.

i did a fdisk and formated my whole computer. i noticed with soft sandra that my agp was runnign at 1x. i installed 3dmark2000 and rebooted. i ran the tests and wrote down my scores (i am at work now so i do nto remember exactly what they were). i then install agpswitch and did a force 2x. then rebooted. ran 3dmark2000 and my score was significantly lower than when it was before when softsandra said i was running at agp 1x. any ideas?