Your first overclock?

[geecee]

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...

 

[TGHI]

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

 

[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.

Man that is hardcore, doing it back then.

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!

 

[Boogak]

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

 

[Jayczar]

Celeron 300A ---> 450 on Abit BX6... YUMMY!!!

 

[slaves123]

a K6-II 450 to 500Mhz... pretty simple

 

[Big Lar]

P2 233 to 240 something, felt like a life boost

 

[DAPUNISHER]

P166MMX@200mhz

 

[FrustratedUser]

XP2500 to XP3200

 

[MDE]

AMD K6-2 400 to 450.

 

[jswjimmy]

p2 350mhz to 420 @ 120fsb, 2.2volts(no fan just heatsink). i ran pc133 not pc100.

 

[Mullzy]

200 MMX @ 225 baby.... Oooh yeaaah!

 

[JayMassive]

Umm...hello, my name is Jason...and I have a Dell. (sob, sob) no overclocking (sob, sob)

 

[Sid59]

400MHZ ..1800 > 2200

 

[SithSolo1]

1ghz Tbird to 1.3ghz

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: Dman877
P3 550@603 (Katmai core)

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.

 

[gigantor]

started last night heh

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

 

[Tessel8]

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.

Man that is hardcore, doing it back then.

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!

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

 

[Twioz]

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.

 

[Monoman]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
P166MMX@200mhz

1st /\
.......|

2nd P3 450@600
3rd TBird 1.0@1.4
4th TBA

 

[Cybercat]

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

 

[Zim]

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

 

[Arcanedeath]

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...

 

[Avalon]

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

 

[osage]

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