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geecee

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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... :)
 
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TGHI

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Cyrix 686 166+ to 180...yeehaw. I miss those days...oh, wait....no I don't.
 
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pspada

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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!
 
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Boogak

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A Celeron 333mhz to 418mhz, didn't go for the 300a to 450a due to having an LX motherboard (the venerable Abit LX6).
 
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techwanabe

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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.
 
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gigantor

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started last night heh

2500+ to ? - nothing stable yet so I am not considering it an oc until it is complete..
 
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Tessel8

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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 :)


 
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Twioz

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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.
 
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Cybercat

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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. :cool: j/k
 
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Zim

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AMD 586 133MHz, OC'd to 160MHz. Ran stable and cool. Those were the days! ;)
 
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Arcanedeath

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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... :)
 
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Avalon

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Wow, I'm a nub...
2500+ @ 2.0ghz (couldn't even hit 3200+)
Hey look, that's my current system
*hides in shame*
 
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osage

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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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