Your first overclock?

[TAKKLE]

Just curious as to what everyone's first overclocking venture was, mine was a Pentium 75 I overclocked to 90, I even put a fan on the heatsink!

I had to mess with jumpers too! lol

Anyone remember having to set IRQ's and DMA's with jumpers on ISA cards?

Things are so much easier now...

 

[Jeff7181]

First was a 333 Mhz AMD K6-2 that I ran at 375. Stock was 66x5, I ran it at 75x5... no voltage or cooling changes. It was very noticeably faster playing Counter-Strike.

Since then I've overclocked other, slower systems. K6 166 to around 200 I think... 486DX2 66 Mhz to 75 Mhz... Pentium 2 233 to 266. Then a Duron 700 to 766... then an Athlon 1.2 to 1.4... then my first XP1700 Palomino from 1466 to 1533... then my first XP1700 T-Bred from 1466 to 1733... then my first XP2500 from 1833 to 2200... then my current XP2500 from 1833 to 2200 on default voltage, or 2300 on 1.75 volts (2322 or something like that was the most I was able to get out of it without any Prime 95 errors.)

 

[TAKKLE]

Aye, Quake ran better on my stsyem after the overclock

 

[WobbleWobble]

Pentium 90 to 120MHz

I wasn't even reading up on overclocking back then. I didn't even have Internet yet. I just did it because I was curious! Wouldn't hit 133MHz though, darn!

 

[RussianSensation]

Athlon 1600+ 1400mhz to 1630mhz on stock voltage, and then i couldn't go anywhere because I dont have PCI/AGP lock on my KT333 motherboard. I guess that was a bad overclocking experience.

 

[TAKKLE]

I was still on Prodigy back then, only ISP with a local number at the time

 

[TAKKLE]

Yeah, mine was more of a curiosity thing too, I still have that processor actually

 

[StageLeft]

Mine was a K6-2/300 which wouldn't even run at 330 ish, with a great board and cooling. I sold that POS and bought a 300A right after, which went at 450, so that was my first OC. My first attempted OC was a Pentium 200 @ 225, but it wouldn't do more than post.

 

[pspada]

I overclocked my first 8088-2 chip from 4.7Mhz to 8Mhz - almost a 100% overclock. It was noticeably faster playing games like hack or rogue.

 

[Yurkinator]

I overclocked my pentium 150 to 187. 75mhz fsb! With my voodoo1 was a great system. heh

 

[TAKKLE]

Originally posted by: pspada
I overclocked my first 8088-2 chip from 4.7Mhz to 8Mhz - almost a 100% overclock. It was noticeably faster playing games like hack or rogue.

lol nice, my first computer was an 8088 3.66 Mhz, I played King's Quest ^^

I was just a kid then though and didn't really understand the technical aspects of computers, much less how to overclock

I did however always try to get the girl in King's Quest to undress, unfortunately it always gave me some kind of error, probably calling me a pervert or something

 

[TAKKLE]

So that was what 20 years ago I had my 8088, 3.66 Mhz, we're at 3.66 Ghz or better now (Well some of us)

Pretty amazing leap in computing power if you ask me... but I doubt we'll make that big of a leap 20 years from now...

 

[Peter D]

1700+ Palomino I think. Couldn't OC it much on crappy RAM and a K7S5ASS

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: pspada
I overclocked my first 8088-2 chip from 4.7Mhz to 8Mhz - almost a 100% overclock. It was noticeably faster playing games like hack or rogue.

Man that is hardcore, doing it back then.

 

[Megatomic]

The first chip I overclocked was an AMD K5-75, I ran it at 133MHz IIRC. Every chip from then on has been overclocked.

 

[Abzstrak]

first was a Packard Bell 386SX-20MHz to 25MHz.... that was about 12 years ago....

 

[THUGSROOK]

p2 300 @ 350mhz (2.5x140fsb)

 

[oldfart]

P133 @ 150

 

[Dman877]

P3 550@603 (Katmai core)

 

[Shimmishim]

tbird 1 ghz @ 1.4 ghz

 

[suklee]

Cyrix 166+ -> 200+

 

[Elcs]

T'Bred B 1700+ @ 210x10.5 @ 1.75V actual

I started late

 

[jpeyton]

(2) Celeron 366 @ 550MHz on an Abit BP6.

 

[slag]

AMD 586-133 overclocked to 586-166.
Then a pentium 166 w/mmx overclocked to p200.
Then a celeron 266 overclocked to 448 mhz.

 

[cowdog]

I'm guess I'm just getting into overclocking puberty. My first overclock was a little over a year ago with one of those sweet XP 2100+ cpus on an Nforce2 board. Prior to that was into building systems from scavenged parts (last was a 333MHz duallie with a SCSI subsystem that still runs just fine), and overclocking wasn't really on my radar. But, as overclocking is now prime time, I was innundated with overclocking information and advocacy when I started doing some online research for a new system back in late 1992. Now I'm hooked. It is weird, but computing became as much a hobby as a tool.