Intel Celeron 1.7GHz - Pentium 4 Powered

Overclocking

Since the new Celeron isn't made on a 0.13-micron process we didn't have any delusions of being able to overclock it to 3GHz marks, but we were able to do quite well with it.

We performed the simplest overclock possible by increasing the FSB from 100MHz to 133MHz which increased the clock speed from 1.70GHz to 2.26GHz. In order to maintain stability at that speed we had to boost the core voltage from 1.750V to 1.850V, an increase of less than 6%.

The overclocked CPU did not require any additional cooling aside from Intel's retail heatsink/fan; the CPU was an OEM part bought off the web from Newegg.

The Test

Unlike our usual Pentium 4 test bed, we chose an 845 with DDR SDRAM for the Pentium 4 and new Celeron to properly represent the target market for the new CPU.