Overclocking / Bios Settings - Help...

[redmaggott]

I have a Celeron 2.2g CPU,512Mb DDR333 ,Asus P4PE,128Mb Ti4600 Graphics and a Soundblaster Audigy Platinum Soundcard.
My PC seems to be running slower than it should.According to SiSoft Sandra I have DDR266 when i know its 333.I have been into the bios and 333 is not available as an option just 200 or 233,i dont understand the multipliers etc but have notice if a change the frequency then 333 does become available>How does it work.Im sure its set up wrong.I'm sure i can get more out of this PC.Any advice much appreciated.Or any links on the subject.I've heard that the motherboard and celeron are good for overclocking.Thanks

[lynx]

That motherboard only supports DDR333 when FSB is set to 2x266 (533MHz). Link (http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=P4PE)
However, the celeron processor only supports 2x200 (400MHz). Link (http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/processors/celeron/index.htm?iid=ipp_browse+dkstopprocess_celeron&)
So it would appear that the two are not going to work together in the manner you had hoped.

The motherboard is certainly very good for overclocking, however, I would have thought that for overclocking processors one would start with the P4 or Athlon range. It seems a little strange to start with what is effectively a disabled processor (often because parts of the chip have failed at high freqs) and try to overclock it.

[redmaggott]

I bought the motherboard with an upgrade to a p4 in mind as when i replace my cpu i dont want to fit another motherboard.anything i can do to speed it up?

[Spindulik]

The first problem is the Celeron! It has a crippled L2cache.
It appears that the motherboard is not supportave of the CPU settings that you anticipated.