C566 FCPGA won't overclock. What gives?

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Originally posted by spanky2k:
To hit 850 with my cu-celery 566 I had to up the voltage to 2.1 (may be 2.2, can't remember). I had to buy a decent slotket converter because my previous lame unbranded one could do sod all voltage. I got an Abit SlotKET!!! which can whoop up the voltage to like 2.9 or something ridiculous like that.

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Holy crap, that is high! 2.1/2.2 on the Coppermine core Celeron's can NOT be good for it..



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Originally posted by sapasion:
If it was pre-tested do you have a guarantee? If so, just get a new one. Not every 566 will do 850, but if it was pre-tested it definitely should, that's why they charged you probably 40% more $$.

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I totally agree with this. What is the point of paying the extra $$ if you aren't going to get the returns you paid for?




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Usually the pretested CPU sites mention the system that they guarantee the overclock. I had some difficulty o'clocking my guaranteed CPU to 935mhz (Cel2-566). However, I was running the fine edge of overclocking my AGP GF-2 MX at the same time. I finally got everything stable at 922mhz cpu and 190 mem/ 195 core on the MX. Not too shabby! BTW, a key ingredient for the cpu was getting the voltage to 1.85v .
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