What was your favorite overclocking "era" and why?

[adairusmc]

Though I did not overclock it initially (bought it off of forum member Don66), I had a Slot 1 P3 800 overclocked to 1107 Mhz (IIRC). That thing was a monster, and lasted me quite a while.

 

[darkfalz]

Bumping my 7x100 700MHz P3 Coppermine right up to 933 soon as I bought it was very nice

 

[CrystalBay]

so anyone remember the prices of the 300a , or coppermine 700???? I forgot but owned them all.

My celery 366 would do 600 pretty easily, I just have forgot what I paid for these cpu's.....

 

[firewolfsm]

I haven't been around that long, but the Opteron + overvolted 7900GT era was great. Guaranteed 50% overclocks on both parts, closer to 80 if you were lucky. I got top of the line speed from a $1050 system.

 

[evolucion8]

The C2D era is the best overclocking era, but is not fascinating cause pretty much everybody can overclock it, but the one that I like it as a challege was the Northwood era, not everybody was able to overclock a 1.6GHz P4 to 2.4GHz. I overclocked a P2 from 300MHz to 450MHz, a P4 2.4B to 2.8, a Northwood from 3.4GHz to 3.73 (Not that much), then the Gallatin (P4EE) at 3.4GHz overclocked at 3.6GHz stable (It sucks) and now the Dothan which I overclocked from 2.26GHz to 2.6GHz (Not bad but not great either, seems that this core hits a wall at 2.6GHz)

 

[Eddie95Z28]

For me it would be overclocking a Pentium 90 to 133Mhz. Even though the first thing I overclocked would be a 486 to 66Mhz. Woo Hoo! Talk about highpower. That 486 had 16 megs of ram and 1 gig Gig SCSI drive. It was a powerhouse. BUt sadly none of my newer systems have been overclocked at all. I am perfectly happy with the Stock 3.0Ghz of the e6850

 

[raynman68]

I place my vote with the 300A and the BP6 bumping up to 450 was almost a sure thing. Although my greatest thrill overclocking was my first overclock, bumping my 486DX33 to 50MHz. The thing was awesome until one August afternoon the AC went out in the house while I was at work and I came home to a 95 degree home and a dead and stanky computer. As for my present state of mind, I am in the same boat as Eddie95Z28 I am quite happy with my E6600 and my soon to arrive Q6600 at stock speeds.

 

[classy]

The celery days by far. I had a 300 that did 450 and two 366's that did 550. Back in those days cpu horsepower was so important. Today we have an abundance of cpu power and not enough apps or hardware that can use it all.

 

[Killrose]

Socket 370 PPGA Celeron 366 . With that 5.5 locked multi and a 100+MHz bus of the BX440 chipset. 550-600MHz no problems. Coupled with a tweaked TNT1 it was the fastest thing on earth!!

 

[StopSign]

Athlon 64 Winchester era. That was a big deal because it was AMD's move to 90 nm and lots of people jumped on the AMD bandwagon at that time. That was my first time building and overclocking a computer, so I learned a great deal of stuff from that build. I'd say around 80% of the stuff I know right now was learned when I was researching for that build.