Why do you think companies that sold pre-tested OCed chips are doing bad now?

[PremiumG]

It seems a while ago, companies like www.pcnut.com, www.protoncomputers.com, and www.outsideloop.com as well as other sites that sold pretested chips were the rave of the computer nerds industry selling pretested chips guaranteed to OC a certain amount.

I remember buying P3 700 Mhz chips pretested to 1 gig from outsideloop. Now, pcnut.com and protoncomputers.com's sites aren't even updated and I dont know who outsideloop is doing. How come they seem to have gone down in popularity? There are still very OC'able chips to test and sell (i.e. 1700XP, 2100XP, P4 2.4Ghz, etc.)

 

[DurocShark]

Because the realworld difference is painfully small. Only the geekiest of us even bother anymore.

This isn't the days of running your Celly 266 @ 400. Now I can get my AMD 2000+ (1.6) running at 1.8? 2.0? Woopdeedoo.

I really don't need 299 fps in UT2k. 200 fps is just fine.

 

[rival]

why overclock when more people are already running at 2+ghz?

 

[Joker81]

anybody remember stepthermodynamics? I bought a 650@850pIII and a 366@550Celeron back in the day

 

[BatmanNate]

I run my 2.4 GHz Northie at 3.3 GHz, and let me tell you it makes a world of difference during long MPEG-4 encodes, which is mostly what I use the machine for. I think it is probably the memory bandwidth from running the fsb at about 1.1 GHz effective.

 

[Occifer]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
I run my 2.4 GHz Northie at 3.3 GHz, and let me tell you it makes a world of difference during long MPEG-4 encodes, which is mostly what I use the machine for. I think it is probably the memory bandwidth from running the fsb at about 1.1 GHz effective.

Same here. 1.6a @ 2.4, BIIIG difference!

 

[ajayjuneja]

I run my 3.0 Ghz P4 at 3.4 Ghz, a noticable difference

(900 Mhz FSB)

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: PremiumG
It seems a while ago, companies like www.pcnut.com, www.protoncomputers.com, and www.outsideloop.com as well as other sites that sold pretested chips were the rave of the computer nerds industry selling pretested chips guaranteed to OC a certain amount.

I remember buying P3 700 Mhz chips pretested to 1 gig from outsideloop. Now, pcnut.com and protoncomputers.com's sites aren't even updated and I dont know who outsideloop is doing. How come they seem to have gone down in popularity? There are still very OC'able chips to test and sell (i.e. 1700XP, 2100XP, P4 2.4Ghz, etc.)

no they werent all the rave.

 

[Cerb]

1. We can do it ourselves easier.
2. We can do it ourselves for the same cost, which was not necessarily true then (you saved more money way back when).
3. The differences are less and less, with heavy duty applications, such as games, being more and more limtied by video card and memory.

 

[MWink]

Originally posted by: Joker81
anybody remember stepthermodynamics? I bought a 650@850pIII and a 366@550Celeron back in the day

Oh yeah, worst investment every. Bought a Celeron 300 guaranteed to do 450, and that's all it ever did. I got it with their best cooler that cost twice as much as the chip. I later realized I could have bought 3 Celeron's for the same price and one of them would have surely done 450 without that huge power hungry cooler. OTOH that chip's still going to this very day, though a few of the fans are going bad on the cooler.

 

[Spoooon]

I never bought any of the guaranteed overclocks. It was more fun buying a chip and seeing what it could do.
Celeron 333@416 or so
Athlon 550@850 or so
PIII 700@1000 or so

Good times.

 

[NutBucket]

Originally posted by: Spoooon
I never bought any of the guaranteed overclocks. It was more fun buying a chip and seeing what it could do.
Celeron 333@416 or so
Athlon 550@850 or so
PIII 700@1000 or so

Good times.

I agree. I had

Celeron 366@550
Celeron 566@850
and currently
Celeron 1100A@1466

Much more fun doing it yourself (tho I did have to mod this board to accept the 1100A)

 

[Spoooon]

I agree. I had

Celeron 366@550
Celeron 566@850
and currently
Celeron 1100A@1466

Much more fun doing it yourself (tho I did have to mod this board to accept the 1100A)

Yeah, my favorite was the Athlon, because it seemed like an accomplishment popping open the cartridge. I couldn't believe I was doing it because I didn't have the money to replace the CPU if I screwed up.
On my PIII, a wire shorted a trace on the mobo, and I had to bust out a soldering iron to repair it.

 

Because with the extra money you will spend on a guaranteed OCable chip, you can just put into getting a faster nonOCed chip.