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Your first overclock?

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Mine was the oft-maligned Cel 266(No Cache, 4X66mhz) to 400 (4X100) on an early BX6 board. I though it was so awesome at the time. Then the 300s (w/ 128K cache) came out, which easily OC-ed to 450, and I was bummed again. Used that 266@400 for a long time. Ah, the nostalgia... 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
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.
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Man that is hardcore, doing it back then.
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You don't know how hardcore it was. I needed to unsolder the 4.7Mhz clock crystal from the mobo, and solder on a new crystal. I went so far as to add a tiny button switch sticking out the back of the system to turn the overclock (or Turbo, as we called it then) on and off. Not sure why I bothered, I never ran the system at 4.7Mhz ever. But I did have one of the first Princeton Graphics AMBER monitors, and an Everex "The Edge" graphics card that could display 16 "shades" on the monitor. Add the 2 half-height 360K floppies, and I had a killler system!
 
A Celeron 333mhz to 418mhz, didn't go for the 300a to 450a due to having an LX motherboard (the venerable Abit LX6).
 
Originally posted by: Dman877
P3 550@603 (Katmai core)
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My first was the P3 550 FC-PGA (Coppermine) at 733 mhz. First computer I built from scratch back in May 2000. The CPU cost $215 at the time.
 
Originally posted by: pspada
Originally posted by: Skoorb
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.
Click to expand...
Man that is hardcore, doing it back then.
Click to expand...

You don't know how hardcore it was. I needed to unsolder the 4.7Mhz clock crystal from the mobo, and solder on a new crystal. I went so far as to add a tiny button switch sticking out the back of the system to turn the overclock (or Turbo, as we called it then) on and off. Not sure why I bothered, I never ran the system at 4.7Mhz ever. But I did have one of the first Princeton Graphics AMBER monitors, and an Everex "The Edge" graphics card that could display 16 "shades" on the monitor. Add the 2 half-height 360K floppies, and I had a killler system!
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Yeap.. I was right there with ya pspada. I believe I also replaced the 8088 with an NEC V20 at the same time, so I could get it up to 10Mhz. Needed a similar crystal hack. It is kinda funny... I have this myopic view that everyone did this kinda think..... guess I am an "oldtimer" in the computing world 🙂.

I also seem to remember hacking an overclock for my C64... but I can't remember enough details to count it 🙂


 
Dont remember exactly the mhz but it was an Amiga 500 with a piggyback chip that went on top of the cpu and brought it from around 8mhz to 14mhz I do believe. That was back in 1990.
 
LOL, those were the days. You didn't have BIOS OCing, nooooo, it had to all be done by hand, via all the numerous jumpers on the motherboard. Thank god I never messed with one of those. My first real OC is actually very recent. I had OCed my old Radeon 7500, but that was about it. I helped a friend get his 3.0C to 3.3GHz. :Q Yeah, I felt like teh shizz man. 😎 j/k
 
My first Overclock was a P100 to 133, I got lucky and had a good chip 🙂 my next overclock was a PPGA Celeron 366 @ 550, now that was a screaming system for it's time, used a big Coolermaster heatsink and an Iwill slocket 2, worked pretty well all things considered. next step up was a P3 550E @ 733, used that system for a Looooong time lol, that chip is still in service today running in a gateway server board back at stock, I've had a few more OC's since then but those were the early ones... 🙂
 
Wow, I'm a nub...
2500+ @ 2.0ghz (couldn't even hit 3200+)
Hey look, that's my current system
*hides in shame*
 
Packerd-Bell Pentium 75 to 100mhz.......still in use as a nix router

K6 300 to 375mhz

cel 366 to 500 mhz

P3 650 to 975 mhz

Duron 650 to 1000mhz...... still have a couple of these around

T-bred B1700 to 2400mhz ......still the best chip I think I've had

Barton 2500s to 2400mhz

Next up Barton Ms
 
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