List your most fun or favorite overclock

[Frick]

Anything on Abit boards.

 

[Liquid Cool]

Well Frick...

Here is my last A-Bit board...an AV8. Not as good of an overclocker as my NF7-S Rev 2 though. Notice the direction of the GPU Cooler? History buffs will remember that chip...



Also...this system ran hot in my Lian Li V1000 even with Liquid Cool'ing. The Abit AV8 as mentioned was not only my last A-Bit motherboard, but my last AMD motherboard for 11 years.

This board here...she ran like a scalded dog.



Even the mention of A-Bit still puts a smile on my face. In the memory of my life. It was "the best of times"... ,

Liquid Cool

 

[Edwired]

i havent upgraded mine since 2013 still going here ah sure some day i i retire my system for something better

 

[Mr.Scott]

Well Frick...

Here is my last A-Bit board...an AV8. Not as good of an overclocker as my NF7-S Rev 2 though. Notice the direction of the GPU Cooler? History buffs will remember that chip...

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Also...this system ran hot in my Lian Li V1000 even with Liquid Cool'ing. The Abit AV8 as mentioned was not only my last A-Bit motherboard, but my last AMD motherboard for 11 years.

This board here...she ran like a scalded dog.

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Even the mention of A-Bit still puts a smile on my face. In the memory of my life. It was "the best of times"... ,

Liquid Cool

My AV8 did 330 fsb. I didn't think that was too bad. I've had worse 'better' boards.

 

[freeagent]

I couldn’t nail down 500fsb with my Yorkie. I did have a 9550 but traded a forum member for his Xeon equivalent because his board wouldn’t run and he was stuck. He covered shipping both ways, nice guy. I got a better clock with it and it ran cooler. I think I only got 480fsb out of it, and I want to say 473 out of the 9550, but that was many many moons ago. I should put it together this weekend and see what shell do. Too bad I didn’t write anything down so now I will have to test my might all over again. Shouldn’t be too difficult to get in the neighborhood, we’ll see.

Edit:

I cant find all of the hardware to mount my Ultra 120 Extreme.. sonofa.. All I have as a spare is my 212 Evo

I hate that cooler so much

But who knows it might be awesome like everyone says

I would almost rather tear apart my other system for its cooler.

Dammit Jim.

My AV8 did 330 fsb. I didn't think that was too bad. I've had worse 'better' boards.

I paid like 350 bucks for this guy here:

Universal abit > Motherboard, Digital Speakers, iDome, AirPace, Multimedia

Universal abit > Motherboard, Digital Speakers, iDome, AirPace, Multimedia

abit.ws

I swear I was doing 350fsb+ with it. It was such a nice board to use. All of my imageshack uploads have long vanished. I lost the hdd all of my early screens and system photos were on due to hardware failure, a tragedy indeed. I may have one or two pics, Ill have to see. That drove my Sandy 3700, and Toledo 4400.

Edit again:

Found a few pics

 

[storm-chaser]

MERGED at this point for CONTINUATION of existing thread with new

This could be your "best" overclock on your favorite CPU. But it doesn't have to be. It can be something sentimental or vintage, in other words, pick the OC that strikes your fancy.

-This is totally subjective, comes down to the individual to explain their reasoning
-could be an overclock you are proud of, perhaps because you had to invest many many hours to get it right.
-could be your fastest overclocked CPU or
-Your most well rounded overclock for the system as a whole.
-Or just something with intrinsic value.
-Please include a snip or two including the CPUz shot and other relevant information.
-Give us a little background on how you achieved this overclock. For me, it's definitely the AMD Phenom II 970 BE Zosma, which unlocks to a hexacore that runs stock at 3.5Ghz but can be OCd to 4.0GHz. These chips also had a great memory controller that could be easily overclocked, yielding very impressive memory latency / L3 cache numbers.

This is my favorite overclock of all time because I've just about pushed everything to the limit, including FSB, clock frequency, CPU-nb frequency, memory speed and memory timings. In other words, it's my most well rounded Phenom II overclock and the latency number is hard to beat, even for latest gen hardware. Especially since the Phenom II platform is my favorite platform to work with whether it be tweaking, tuning or tinkering.


HP Z820 workstation - dual CPUs - 24C / 48T @ 3.5GHz (turbo) and octal channel 64GB ecc ram, 300GB raid 0 x 4 SSD, water cooled (from the factory), MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT Gaming X 8GB GPU





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[Deleted member 24505]

My best, 111% OC on a E6300. The board, chip and ram combo was stunning. It was good fun and iirc very nearly a record for a E6300 on air at the time.

 

[Bones]

All time record for Socket 754 - Ref clock with CPU-Z validation.
Previous runs were done to reclaim the record and this one for Country Cup 2019.

Maybe one day I'll get 500 from it.

 

[Deleted member 193596]

i bought a "Dead CPU/Mobo Bundle" from ebay from a dude that didn't knew what was the problem.

it was a gigabyte aorus pro and the CPU in the socket (nothing works, doesn't turn on etc.)
the board was indeed completely dead (did not even powered on)
but the CPU was fine.

tested it and it runs at 5.2 Ghz all core (no avx offset) at around 1.32V under full load in Prime95 (small fft, avx2)

was my daily chip until the 10850k was on sale.

 

[biffzinker]

I would have to consider the K6-III @ 400MHz I overclocked to 504 MHz as my favorite overclock. Second too that would be the Athlon XP 2500+ that overclocked to a 3200+ on a Abit NF2 Ultra board.

 

[agentnathan009]

I had fun overclocking this guy. I used the pencil trick on a different CPU ("Palomino" core with brown package) before getting a mobile "Barton" core CPU (green package). The pencil trick was a bit nerve wracking but CPU worked fine until I retired her. Don't remember how far I overclocked it but it was a reasonable amount if I recall correctly. You haven't overclocked until you used a lead pencil to modify a CPU package to overclock! I believe I overclocked the “Barton” core to 2133Mhz. It had unlocked multipliers (one reason I bought it) so it was easy to overclock.

 

[owen10578]

Thought you guys might find this interesting, using the pain in the ass BCLK adjustment bug on Z170 motherboards to overclock a Celeron G3900 to 4.62GHz. If only intel had unlocked multipliers on all their chips, celeron overclocking would be awesome again like the old days.

 

[delshay]

Please state if you did your best overclock on LN2 as I find it a little unfair for those on air or water.


This is an old screenshot of an AMD FX-60 "on air" I posted on TPU some years ago.

COOLER: Noctua C14 with integrated "soldered IHS" at it's base.
MOTHERBOARD CAPACITORS: Upgraded to Nichicon PLE Series.
DDR MEMORY MODULES: Classified **(can't be disclosed)**.

 

[P4-630]

It seems you already made a thread with the same subject a while ago:

List your most fun or favorite overclock

Started this at overclockers.com but I wanted to see what interests people over here at TPU. Self Explanatory, list your favorite overclock on your favorite CPU. Tell us about some of the interesting quirks or features if you wish. Has to be a CPU that you've owned, not a wish list item. For...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[storm-chaser]

Yeah in reference to the original thread, I did do a brief search here on the forum in an effort to find that. But for some reason, I must have missed it... so at that point I just assumed I had posted this thread on a couple other forums and not here on TPU. That's why I started the new thread here.

In any event, the mods have merged both threads to keep this nice and tidy. So by all means, proceed with your submissions!

I also I want to take a moment to reflect and thank you guys for all the superb submissions in this thread. Very good data here. An overclockers dream, I will be reading through it again from page one when I get some time.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

My AV8 did 330 fsb. I didn't think that was too bad. I've had worse 'better' boards.

My p5b dlx did 560fsb

 

[Bones]

My p5b dlx did 560fsb

That's all it did?

Bones`s Reference Frequency score: 616.33 MHz with a Rampage Extreme

The Rampage Extreme @ 616.3MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Reference Frequency benchmark. Bonesranks #270 worldwide and #108 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

hwbot.org

TBH there are others that have gone way higher than even my result.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

That's all it did?

Bones`s Reference Frequency score: 616.33 MHz with a Rampage Extreme

The Rampage Extreme @ 616.3MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the Reference Frequency benchmark. Bonesranks #270 worldwide and #108 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

hwbot.org

TBH there are others that have gone way higher than even my result.

Mine was 30mhz off a WR for the E6300 though

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...fun-or-favorite-overclock.254575/post-4029561

 

[The Foldinator]

Darn it i wish i could show some SS from my QC6600 i can't even remember how it overclocked all i do remember it was pretty good had a few of them..
going to go through some trash to find it...

EDIT lol i just noticed i still have 1x QC6600 and a Asus P35 board to go with it Ill be back !

 

[basco]

which p35 is it foldinator?

 

[The Foldinator]

which p35 is it foldinator?

asus p5kc and TBH i have no idea how it overclocked

 

[basco]

aah thats with ddr2+3 or?
if yes it was not the best for quad cores but i am waiting for your overclock-good luck

what is that copper thingy above the m7 marking? not the mainboard above that

i think tigger is right that´s just reflections-lol

 

[Deleted member 24505]

aah thats with ddr2+3 or?
if yes it was not the best for quad cores but i am waiting for your overclock-good luck

what is that copper thingy above the m7 marking? not the mainboard above that

Reflection of board?

 

[Mr.Scott]

asus p5kc and TBH i have no idea how it overclocked

I have P5QC. That's the P45 version of your board. It clocks ok. Not a screamer, but ok.
The duel ram boards are getting hard to find.

 

[Dux]

Athlon II 240. Dual core, 2.8GHz. I tried overcloking it by raising FSB, but it always failed even with the slightest OC. Couldn't find anything in BIOS for RAM settings. Nothing in the motherboard manual. One day i just stumbled on it online. Press ctrl+F1 if i remember correctly, to unlock advanced settings in BIOS. Then i got advanced RAM settings and adjusted RAM-FSB ratio so that RAM frequency remains at 800MHz even with OC. Managed to get stable 3.7GHz with that crappy stock cooler. It went to 3.9 and perhaps even 4.0GHz. But stock cooler wasn't good enough for cooling.