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What was your first overclock?

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Read an article on Tom's hardware guide saying how you could run a Pentium 166 MMX at 200 Mhz by changing one jumper setting. I've never owned a desktop system that wasn't overclocked since then.

LOL - same here! Almost bought a 200MMX computer way back, but read about this beforehand (thankfully). Saved some cash and still had 200mhz. Afterwards, I have not run a single CPU at stock that I use for myself. That includes PIIs, PIIIs, Athlons, AXPs, A64s, C2Ds, Nehalems, and SBs.
 
My 486 33Mhz was just dropping a new chip into the overdrive socket, not counting that as a real overclock. Didn't overclock my P5 120 Mhz because i was chicken, but I really wanted to overclock it bad. Then came the Celeron 333A on an Abit BX6 or an Abit BE6 motherboard. (think I had both but one had the Celeron 333A and the other had a PII) There was at this point plenty of people overclocking these chips that I felt safe in overclocking CPU's from then on.
 
My most annoying oc was a Celeron 2. My motherboard did not apply custom voltages until after post, and it would not post at the 850 MHz I was running it at with stock voltage. I took one of those old small dc motors and unwound some of the wire from it to short the pins to up the requested voltage to something that would run long enough that the system would post and apply the stable voltage. Ran like a champ until I retired it.

edit: Why I wrapped the pins instead of using the normal pin mod procedure of just jumpering the holes in the socket, I cannot remember. Let me tell you though, wrapping a tiny, tiny strand of wire around a specific 3 processor pins and then tying it so that it would be stable was not an easy process.
 
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I OC'ed a 486-25 SX to 33Mhz in 92-94, that I had a BIG heating sink on. Long before anyone used huge sinks on CPUs. 🙂
 
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