Celeron 450 – All Category Gold Cups

Karmakazi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:15:12 +0000

For my first blog, I am going to write about my latest overclocking endeavor. Eager to snatch some more hardware points over at HWBot, I decided to take a Celeron 450 for a spin. I first tried it in my Asus Rampage Extreme but as I have discovered in the past, these boards dont play nice with 200Mhz FSB CPU’s. So I swapped to a Gigabyte P45-UD3R, and I was all set to go. Cooling was accomplished via a TRUE 120 coupled with a Sanyo Denkai 220 CFM Monster Fan (a cool night and an open window didnt hurt either). RAM used was Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4-4-4-12 2×1GB Kit. They are the 16FD5’s which have Micron D9GMH IC’s and love the volts.

I started with my favorite bench, SuperPi 32M. The vcore was set to a safe 1.55v (overkill most likely but thats my style) to get to 3740Mhz. Temps were around 40°C loaded. Ended up with a nice Gold cup beating the previous record holder by about 3 minutes. Thanks for AndreYang for his very efficient Chinese Windows Server 2k3 OS Of course the obligatory screenshot… (cpu-z was freaking out and not displaying anything. It went away after changing FSB speed)

After that I took it up a notch to 3905Mhz by bumping vcore to 1.57v. I ran Super Pi 1M and Hexus Pifast. It required minimal tweaking to get the golds, so I didnt spend much time on the RAM.

Since 2k3 is definitely not the best OS for wprime I had to bump up clocks again to manage the golds… 3949Mhz @ 1.62v in bios. Cpu-z reading 1.648 WTF?! All good though since temps never exceeded 50°C.

Last up for the night was getting a CPU-Z valid. Wasnt hard at all, and that wrapped up my night on Server 2k3, since I needed to run vista for PCMark 05.

I didnt feel like installing vista & setting up RAID arrays with I-RAMS @ 2AM, so this was done the next day. Turns out I didnt need more than 1 I-RAM to take gold though. I did forget to overclock the processor though . Ran the 4890 @ 1000/1050, no point really pushing the gpu since its bottlenecked by the cpu.

That wraps up this session on the Celeron 450, an easy, no-frills cpu to overclock (with the right board at least). Got a little over 14 hwpoints for the bot, and now its on to an E5200 and some LN2 fun. Thanks for reading –Karmakazi

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Celeron 450 – All Category Gold Cups