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What was your first overclock?

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Ferzerp said:
With the bizarre modem comment, yes, he's likely making it up, but there were 50Mhz base clock motherboards for 486's (There was a non-doubled 50Mhz part at one point), so technically, it could have been possible to run a clock doubled part at 50Mhz base clock.

Unlikely (that wasn't a common bus speed at all, and that's a 50% OC), but technically possible.
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486 DX 50 were out there it will run 50MHZ in and out.
Matter of fact some time you have use wait 1 for Vesa Bus!
cause some VL cards can't handle such higher BUS.
486 DX4 100 was basically DX 25 interly 4X.
Best OC was DX 33 to 40 Mhz with some serious cooling!
Usally Dell were better candindate cause they crazy Arse Huge Heat Sink followed by Cause fan.
486DX2 or DX4 was first CPU with Clock doublers!
 
hehe i had one of those dx2 cpus. i think my computer case had a 'turbo' button which would double the mhz or something.
 
now don't call me old here, but my first OC was a on a 486, not 100% sure which one, I think it was a 33 that I accidentally set the jumpers too high on. To give you an idea, the cpu ran with no heatsinc, and it took about 5-10 seconds for smoke to start coming out from under the chip. I switched the power off and promptly burned myself trying to pull the scalding hot chip out of the board. The socket had a nice burn mark around where one of the pins went in. Both the chip and board went on to live long and productive lives, I actually thought I still had the board but it seems I must have parted with it 🙁 They just don't make stuff that awesome anymore
 
jumpncrash said:
now don't call me old here, but my first OC was a on a 486, not 100% sure which one, I think it was a 33 that I accidentally set the jumpers too high on. To give you an idea, the cpu ran with no heatsinc, and it took about 5-10 seconds for smoke to start coming out from under the chip. I switched the power off and promptly burned myself trying to pull the scalding hot chip out of the board. The socket had a nice burn mark around where one of the pins went in. Both the chip and board went on to live long and productive lives, I actually thought I still had the board but it seems I must have parted with it 🙁 They just don't make stuff that awesome anymore
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Great story. I'd +rep you if they had that here.
 
jumpncrash said:
now don't call me old here, but my first OC was a on a 486, not 100% sure which one,.....
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Don't feel bad, I've looked at this thread title several times and for the life of me I can't even remember my first computers much less the tinkering that I did to them.

The earliest one I can positively remember overclocking was an amd k6 of some sort.
 
Dx4 was clock tripled, not quadrupled. Yes, it was misnamed, but it was triple. 25Mhz gave you 75, 33mhz gave you 99, and they called it 100Mhz.
 
IlllI said:
hehe i had one of those dx2 cpus. i think my computer case had a 'turbo' button which would double the mhz or something.
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The turbo button on your old computer took it from whatever the normal bus speed was, down to 8Mhz. Turbo was a misnomer. It was really an "underclock so that programs that are written on the assumption of an 8Mhz clock won't run too fast" button.

Though on a DX2, that would have made it 16Mhz instead of 8Mhz.
 
I could only overclock once I was able to build my own system. Didn't dare try it on the Packard Bell 486/SX 25MHz I was using. The first PC I built had a Pentium 166C (non-MMX). Got it to 180MHz. After that I had a K6-2 300MHz at 333MHz. The real overclocker that got me into overclocking was the Celeron 300As. Had two of them. One at 450MHz and the other at 464MHz.
 
A 486SX25 with a "Turbo button" on a Packard Bell machine 😀

I kid... I didn't even know if that turbo button even works. My first real overclock was a Duron 650 OC'd to 800mhz on a Thermaltake Orb cooler.
 
I think my first OC was a Northwood P4 2.8C to 3 GHz on a piece of garbage MSI P4M80-M4.
After that, I unsuccessfully tried to OC my Phenom X4 9600BE (2.3 GHz stock) to 2.4 GHz with a multiplier bump.
Then I tried 2.35 GHz with a small base clock bump. That didn't work either.
How do you spell "Turd", you ask? P.H.E.N.O.M.

Also, I remember OC'ing a Pentium MMX (Perhaps 133MHz stock?) to 550MHz on a Super Socket 7 board that I got for free from a local computer shop. IIRC, It would POST, but it would crash at the Windows boot screen.
 
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Wikipedia suggests that some of the DX4's would also do 50x2 though, oddly, and that the dx3 would have been 2.5x, but was never released.
 
Hubb1e said:
Celeron 300A to 450mhz.
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Glad Im not alone,.... and holy hells, did that Celeron 300A move fast.
That was a wicked CPU.

Im sitting on a Phenom II @4ghz now, but.... I think I ll remember that 300A more foundly than any other CPU Ive owned. Back then, cpu upgs ment more for performance in games ect than they do now, I feel, and the Celeron 300A doing a 50% overclock is just insane (good value buy too).
 
My first overclock was strange...An Pentium M 1.3Ghz Banias on ASUS M3N overclock to 1.5Ghz for 10 minute and overclock to 1.4Ghz for ... about a week?
 
Not my 1st OC but one of my Best. Asus Slot-I P3V4X on Air at 1740MHz's. Vided 1.3G Celron Taulatin CPU on a Slot-1/Socket-370 Converter Card - Ati 9800XT/Ati Tv-Wonder and Audigy 2.

Great MB has a 200Mhz Clock Generator, Believe it has 150Mhz SDD Dimms - Could get it to 1.8G's but wasn't stable enough - Still got that Box.

I've been running Win7 32 Ultimate on a GA-7N400Pro2 (rev2) nForce 2 MB with 2G's of OCZ DDR with a 1.8 Barton at 2230mhz for almost 10 years now without a HIC-UP. I got an Unlocked Barton 3200 here that's suppose to 2.5G's but never got around to trying it - Ati HD 2600XT AGP with HDMI working (Bios Hack) backed with an Ati Tv-Wonder with Stereo Chip.

Seems to me I always keep my Box's until they are worthless but they are Classic Rigs - LOL

Looking to UpGrade to a GA-Z68XP-UD4 /i5 2500K this Spring 😱

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monkeydelmagico said:
Don't feel bad, I've looked at this thread title several times and for the life of me I can't even remember my first computers much less the tinkering that I did to them.

The earliest one I can positively remember overclocking was an amd k6 of some sort.
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Lol, I figured I shouldn't mention the 286 I set fire to, because I wasn't actually overclocking at the time, it just caught on fire because there was too much crap in it, quite surprising really.
 
Z15CAM said:
Not my 1st OC but one of my Best. Asus Slot-I P3V4X on Air at 1740MHz's. Vided 1.3G Celron Taulatin CPU on a Slot-1/Socket-370 Converter Card - Ati 9800XT/Ati Tv-Wonder and Audigy 2.

Great MB has a 200Mhz Clock Generator, Believe it has 150Mhz SDD Dimms - Could get it to 1.8G's but wasn't stable enough - Still got that Box.

I've been running Win7 32 Ultimate on a GA-7N400Pro2 (rev2) nForce 2 MB with 2G's of OCZ DDR with a 1.8 Barton at 2230mhz for almost 10 years now without a HIC-UP. I got an Unlocked Barton 3200 here that's suppose to 2.5G's but never got around to trying it - Ati HD 2600XT AGP with HDMI working (Bios Hack) backed with an Ati Tv-Wonder with Stereo Chip.

Seems to me I always keep my Box's until they are worthless but they are Classic Rigs - LOL

Looking to UpGrade to a GA-Z68XP-UD4 /i5 2500K this Spring 😱

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Yeah, I'd probably never get rid of that rig, either.
I miss the times when you had to put a lot of work into your OC, and the outcome was awesome.
Nowadays, with SNB, you just set the multiplier to 44-50x and fiddle around with the vcore until it's stable.
All of the fun is taken out of it.
 
my first overclock ever was the AMD Athlon XP 2500 Mobile 1.8Ghz which I overclocked upto 2.5Ghz. Great CPU for the money 🙂
 
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