You know you Overclock too much when....

[tigersty1e]

You get pissed and think you're processor is broken when your E6320 can't go from stock (1.86 GHz) to 3.0 GHz on stock voltage, a 62% overclock.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: Gillbot


Ahh, my old PPro oc days I was extatic at 266 and 300!

I had my S1668D strapped running both 200MHz 1MB PPro's at 233 and laughed at the VERY expensive dual PII 300's. Of course they smoked me in 16bit code (the Pro had poor 16bit performance due to a lack of a segment descriptor cache if memory recalls). NT 4.0 with my SERIAL MOUSE. :laugh:

i almost bought a dual ppro setup the other day "just because"!

 

[MarcVenice]

You know you overclock to much when your parents knock on the wall and ask you to stop making that annoying beeping sound ( during POST ).
You know you overclock to much when everytime you hear about a q6600 running at stock speeds you shake your head at the potential being thrown away, knowing it could easily do over 3.0ghz.
You know you overclock to much when you damn AMD for not making CPU's that overclock as well as C2D's do.

 

[Team42]

...you hope that turning off the light will decrease the ambient temperature...

 

[sutahz]

When you have Crysis and Call of Duty 4 to play but you keep pushing your core.

When sleep is a secondary concern.

 

[Gillbot]

when you remember who STEP Thermodynamics was.

 

[aigomorla]

.... ahh heres one that i cant believe we missed...

You know you overclock too much when you find a way to install/run superPI on your TI-84 like this guy did:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...?p=2726541#post2726541



LMAO! now thats extreme....

 

[zorrt]

..when you're willing to go shopping with the gf to stop yourself from constantly googling up reviews of heatsinks for your cpu.

 

[brencat]

...when the number of AT posts you have reaches 333, and suddenly you think "333 FSB"

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
You get pissed and think you're processor is broken when your E6320 can't go from stock (1.86 GHz) to 3.0 GHz on stock voltage, a 62% overclock.

LOL@People who return processors that don't overclock well because they think it must be "broken."

Originally posted by: Gillbot
when you remember who STEP Thermodynamics was.

:shocked: Dayam I'm not the only one? So much for their lifetime warranty on CPUs... must have been "life of the company," LOL. They started out pretty promising, but then started putting out crap stuff like... dual 60x10mm fans blowing down but with a 10mm gap between them.

For those who don't know... STEP was a company that sold CPUs and RAM at cost and made their profit on the CPU cooling systems. Plus, they warranted their CPUs and cooling for life (so much good that did). Originally they used TECs in their coolers, then they started going cheap and eventually went out of business.

 

[nefariouscaine]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
You've once imagined how cool your temps would be if your computer were outside in the cold.

when you still have the window fan blowing cold air in your room during winter to get nice and low ambient temps...

when you put another 2 gig kit in your rig and are upset that you get 4 sticks to run at T1 command rate *now* but couldn't in your 939 rig no matter how hard you tried or hours you wasted attempting to

when you're still hunting places for fatbody D9 IC's and think if they have the really old heatspreaders you just might get lucky

 

[Rubycon]

When you start shopping for pencils by lead type based on conductivity for pencil modding boards with excessive VDROOP. :laugh:

EDIT: I remember STEP and I also remember many people selling pre-tested CPU's. Particularly the Celeron 300A slot-1 and 366 PGA. Thunderbirds were popular - AXIA probably rings a bell or two. Speaking of bells those would be FIRE bells if you turned on the power with no heatsink. That teaches the hasty hobbyist REAL fast to make SURE the ATX power is OFF BEFORE dropping the CPU into the socket! Board powers up, dead cpu INSTANTLY.

 

[nefariouscaine]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
When you start shopping for pencils by lead type based on conductivity for pencil modding boards with excessive VDROOP. :laugh:

2B???

when you think you have an opinion on lead types for pencil mods :roll:

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: nefariouscaine

Originally posted by: Rubycon
When you start shopping for pencils by lead type based on conductivity for pencil modding boards with excessive VDROOP. :laugh:

2b???

B or HB works well.

 

[Emission]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
You build a new system, set the bios on the first boot to ~max OC, it works fine, and you install the OS at that speed !

Guilty,

When you've actually went outside in subzero weather to overclock.

Also guilty.

 

[tigersty1e]

When you're GPU bound, yet still try to squeeze every last ounce out of your CPU.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
I also remember many people selling pre-tested CPU's. Particularly the Celeron 300A slot-1 and 366 PGA.

Heh, I was one that sold "pretested" Celeron 366 PPGA chips (from my computer repair shop). Me and NowhereMan (lifetime ban from here) were testing them on our Abit motherboards. He had a BH6 and a slotket, I was using a BM6.

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: aigomorla
.... ahh heres one that i cant believe we missed...

You know you overclock too much when you find a way to install/run superPI on your TI-84 like this guy did:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...?p=2726541#post2726541



LMAO! now thats extreme....

naw. he's still working on it. he only knows TI-BASIC and you need TI-ASM to program SuperPi on your TI-84. But I think now that will be my side project when I get time.

but anyways, overclocking your calculator is FTW. running a TI-83 @ 250% OC. That's hardcore. Just swap a capacitor (I think. It might be a resistor.)