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Your very first overclocks!!! tell me bout them!!

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Do you guys remember when you first overclocked?

my first was a Pentium 2 at 266Mhz... Tried to OC to 300 using the multipliers.. Computer was unstable as heck! Then I decased the CPU and tried with an aftermarket cooler. Got it to 300 Mhz stable!! Thinking back, it probably wasn't worth the effort and money to OC that chip for such a mild speed bump.

My next OC was worth it though.. i bought two P3's at 700Mhz, OCed them both to 1 gig on a Abit VP6. Man.... that was fast as heck in the days
 
I overclocked a Pentium from 75mhz to 100mhz which was a very popular overclock in that time. I think I had to move jumpers to change the FSB..
 
The XP 2600+ that I put through hell OCing and having no idea what the hell I was doing. Couldnt seem to get much past 2.4 but I knew nothign of ram or dividers so I guess I can be lucky with that. When I get a few greenbacks Im gonna get her a nice motherboard, some good ram and treat her to a nice cool overclock.
 
Let's see....I think I tried to run a Pentium 166 MMX at 210MHz back in the day...very very unstable. 187.5MHz wasn't much better, from what I remember. My first "real" overclock was a Celeron 366 @ 550 in 1999 or so. 😀
 
First time I overclocked was setting up an AMD PR166. All documentation stated it was the equivalent of an intel 166MHz, so that's the speed I ran it as.
 
The turbo button on the front of my pentium pro! Seeing that 33 turn into a 66 was like going to Ludacris speed in spaceball one! (or not, depending on your point of view)
 
lol I was very unlucky. Got a CPU (Athlon TB 1.2Ghz) that could only overclock by 60Mhz, FSB by 7Mhz
Was still a newbie and did a silly thing of buying unboxed OEM processor.
It's common practice for bad sellers to try o/cing each CPU and check which o/c best and which o/c worst and then sell them seperately
 
Originally posted by: Xenoterranos
The turbo button on the front of my pentium pro! Seeing that 33 turn into a 66 was like going to Ludacris speed in spaceball one! (or not, depending on your point of view)
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That looks like a 486-DX2
 
My first was a Pentium 150 which I could get to 180 by changing the multiplier.
Next was a dual P2-333 which I got to 375.
 
Originally posted by: ELopes580
Um, there was no Pentium Pro 33

My first o/c was from an i386-SX 16MHz to 20MHz
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Wow . . . notice a difference?

Edit - Oh, right, my first OC was a Cely 433 to 488. I was cruising . . .
 
My first computer was a Tandy 1000SX, IIRC it had a switch that let you go from 8 to 12 MHz. Blazing dual 5-1/4 floppy (no HDD) system (I always would joke, SX is an abbreviation for sucks). I remember a friend getting a 1GB HDD, we all said he'd never be able to fill the thing, which cost like $500 at the time (before that my friend with a 10MB HDD was the king). With the 1000-sucks experience safely under my belt my next o/c was a P3-850MHz with PC133 memory (100FSB MoBo). I o/c'd to 1GHz, a milestone in my me >> you existence. Stability testing back then was "Boots into Windows?". If yes, we have stability.
 
K6 166 to 266.

I cant remeber the motherboard, but it was the first to have 1mb of cache. It was so expensive.

I had a vacuum cleaner sucking air through the heatsink. It was the only way to keep it cool.

VERY loud.
 
I saved up my summer vacation money to buy a 366 celery i then overclocked it to 550. It was nothing special most guys got theirs to that but i was floating high. It wsa faster then my dads machine that he spent 2000 building only a couple of months before. I ran it for it whole life while i had it at that speed. I really think if that wasn't possible then i might not be working on computers right now, 366 was to damn slow even then.
 
My first over clock was a Pentium classic 100 to 133 via jumpers. (which were not labeled lol man was that a trip finding the right multiplier)
 
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