What was your first overclock?

[Puppies04]

I remember my first time, it was a 286 wearing a basic beige chassis, I roughly grabbed the top panel, pulling sharply and lifting it up. Underneath all the delicate parts were revealed to me. It wasn't my first time looking inside, but this time I was going further than before.

I got out my tool and gently unscrewed the mainboard, tossing aside the floppy and HDD cables. Once I had it in my hands, I searched the top, my young hands fumbling for the small silver nub I had only seen in magazine pictures before. Finding it, I carefully eased it out of the socket, pulling the new clock crystal from its box, I squeezed it back in, pushing every pin down firmly. Having finished I slid the mainboard back into the chassis, and pulled back on the cover.

Pushing the power button, I smiled as the monitor came to life, a quick check revealing that I had succeeded in replacing the clock crystal and overclocked the machine.

Geek pr0n

 

[Hubb1e]

Celeron 300A to 450mhz.

 

[StarTech]

IBM PC AT, 6MHz CPU to 8MHz, just by replacing the crystal

 

[scannall]

An Apple ][e with an Applied Engineering TransWarp card.

 

[khon]

I never did any overclocking until my current i5-2500k.

Not sure I will overclock my next cpu (probably a Haswell).

 

[Netopia]

NEC V-20 from 4.77MHz to 7MHz by de-soldering the original crystal and soldering on a new crystal to the motherboard.

Couldn't imagine being much faster. LOL

 

[Shmee]

C2d e6320.

 

[Smartazz]

I just realized, technically my first overclock was a GPU rather than a CPU. I had a Pentium 4@3GHz with an overclocked 7800GT. The card ran stock at 400MHz and I took it up to 490MHz. I got it for Battlefield 2 and it worked beautifully. Since then I've always overclocked my CPUs and GPUs pretty heavily.

 

[secretsg]

K6-2 350mhz and Celeron 300A to 450mhz.

Good times.

 

[jihe]

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.

Those E2's were sweet sweet overclockers, my E2140 stock 200 fsb, switched to 400 and bam, 100% stable overclock in 30 seconds. Also you could use copper tapes to bsel mod the cpu for those cheap ECS boards with no overclocking bios's. Those were the fun days. Now I hardly bother since stock cpu's have enough power to do everything I need, and I'd rather have a small, cool, and quiet machine.

 

[NAC]

I bought a AMD 5x86/133MHz, intending to overclock to 160mhz.
I incorrectly assumed that the AMD 486 DX2-80mhz was a 3.3 volt chip, but it was a 5 volt chip. So when I put in my new 5x86 I cooked it at 5 volts. Dang.

First successful overclock I think was a Pentium III 550e which I ran at I think 787 from the day I put it in the montherboard.

 

[Joepublic2]

I got my 1.8Ghz 130nm socket 754 athlon 64 to 2.2Ghz

 

[Mir96TA]

AMND 286 8Mhz to 12 MHZ
Sucker got so HOT I have to use HeatSink on that Mofo
It was a $30 upgrade (Crystal)

 

[jpeyton]

Abit BP6, Celeron 366 @ 550.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Athlon 64 3500+ from 2.2ghz to 2.64ghz. The problem was.... I did not know how to revert the overclock, as the computer was not always stable.

 

[dma0991]

I can't remember it clearly but it was a 1.8GHz stock AMD Athlon processor back when Socket A was still the standard. Had to use the pencil mod before overclocking and slapped on a beefy Dr. Thermal heatsink and voila, a 300MHz increase. Couldn't get it past 2.2GHz without crashing.

 

[Arg Clin]

Athlon 500 @ 650 with the goldfinger device.

 

[Soundmanred]

300A to 464MHz, backed down to 450 for stability.

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Q9300 from 2.5GHz to 3.0GHz.

 

[jdfox]

my first overclock was on a asus p5q deluxe board using a q6600 chip and 4gb kingstan hyperX ram 2.4ghz to 3.4ghz ran like a dream untill i upgraded to the sandybridge i7 where i am now having problems with graphics when oc think my psu is on the brink cos i keep losing singal and get a driver error at start up lol but runs fine at stock clocks.

 

[tweakboy]

486 DX up to 100Mhz from 66Mhz.
I was the kid on the block, had my US Robotics modem going too @ 13.4kb

:thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::'(

 

[Mir96TA]

486 DX up to 100Mhz from 66Mhz.
I was the kid on the block, had my US Robotics modem going too @ 13.4kb

:thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown::'(

Can't do it
DX 33/66 have same 33Mhz Clock speed. You can't clock up that much!

 

[Ferzerp]

Can't do it
DX 33/66 have same 33Mhz Clock speed. You can't clock up that much!

With the bizarre modem comment, yes, he's likely making it up, but there were 50Mhz base clock motherboards for 486's (There was a non-doubled 50Mhz part at one point), so technically, it could have been possible to run a clock doubled part at 50Mhz base clock.

Unlikely (that wasn't a common bus speed at all, and that's a 50% OC), but technically possible.

 

[Prey2big]

My first PC I actually owned (in 2001) I immediately started overclocking. Was eager to get into overclocking since the family PC's always was fitted with OEM mobos.
Could only squeeze out 1594MHz on my Athlon Thunderbird 1400C on MSI K7T Turbo. Wouldnt go higher, even with the good ole Alpha PAL cooler.
This system is actually still kickin at my parents home.
Have been overclocking all my systems ever since.

 

[skipsneeky2]

I never did any overclocking until my current i5-2500k.

Not sure I will overclock my next cpu (probably a Haswell).

When i went with a i7 940 when nehalem came out i never overclocked that system for as long as i owned that system.

Being so used to overclocking socket 478 and 775 processors using the fsb and adjusting the vcore,now you had all this other stuff to adjust and it was a bit much for me.

Also why i picked the 940 over the more logical 920 choice cause its the only processor i never wanted to attempt to oc...but the p4 the e6750 and the q6600 before it i went all balls out:thumbsup: