Old School OCing is Fun!

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Well OK, not that old school (swapping crystals, using jumpers, etc.)

Got an "ancient" 1045t Thuban setup going this weekend for seedbox, VM hosting and DD-WRT duties.
Nothing too crazy as it's only running a simple Zalman CNPS5X and the VRMs have no heatsinks (~70C under load).
Kind of fun to tweak all the various dividers and voltages, compared to just upping Vcore and CPU multi

 

[bigboxes]

Old school? I was expecting something considerably older. I had to look up that CPU. In 2009, I turned to the dark side. My next project upgrade is a new home server. Let's hope that AMD is competitive in price and performance and I can once again return.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Heh, well I wasn't going to invest the time to OC something like a C2D, mobile P4, Yonah, etc.
At least the Thuban at 3.7GHz is pretty snappy. It's about on par with a decently (~4.4GHz) OCed Sandy/Ivy in MT tasks.

 

[Ken g6]

There's several voltages you can play with on Skylake too, you know.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

There's several voltages you can play with on Skylake too, you know.

True enough. Just remembered that it was a little bit of a PITA to tweak Haswell at launch too (ring bus speed / voltage, etc.)

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Off-topic, but this "router" is probably overkill

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

when you said "old school OCing" i thought of jumpers like in the 386/486 days.