PhoenixEnigma
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Celeron D 325, I think, based on what I can find on Intel ARK. On a really crappy VIA motherboard, IIRC, the IGP of which I destroyed in the process. Didn't get it very far, either.
BH6 and Celeron 300A up to 450mhz...what a rush =)
E5200 wolfdale
stock 2.5, got it up to 4.0 @ 1.31v. That chip was absolutley golden.
Lordy. You guys had all the fun. A buddy and I were all over our Apple II's in 1982, soldering and doing weird things like putting in a switch that allowed us to move from DOS 3.3 to 3.2 (to play Zork, of course) and stuff like that. But it never occurred to us to try to speed up the cpu.
Oh, the decades wasted until I decided my i7 860 should do 4GHz.
OT: Yeah, those were the days. Back then (CoCo 2), when you wanted to upgrade your RAM, you had to get out the soldering iron!
AMD AM5x86/133MHz chip that I ran at 150MHz in a 50MHz socket which technically wasn't a real overclock.
I did some with 486s and pentiums, but don't remember they were minor improvements.
My first real one was a 300A at 464Mhz and then a PIII850 at 995Mhz (1GHZ! nearly).
You know us young'ens are gonna get pwned by some of the fossils on this forum (I say that with love) who overclocked the Eniac in their sleep, overclocked the AtanasoffBerry Computer before breakfast, and overclocked the Antikythera mechanism by mid-afternoon...
But my own pathetic history of OC'ing started with a 286 computer, which I set to compute 1M places on SPi and then I climbed into my car and drove as fast as possible to time dilate my perception of how quickly the 286 was chewing through the calc. It was bush-league OC'ing, and had questionable power efficiency once I factored in my gas mileage, but you just can't judge a DIY hobby like this in those terms
LOL, seriously though I did my first OC with a POS cyrix chip (either a 486 or a P-class) as I was worried I'd burn up my processors if I tried to OC before then.
Intel Pentium E2160. Stock 1.8Ghz ===> 3.0Ghz after 5 min in bios. I wish my current CPU could do a 60% OC like that.