List your most fun or favorite overclock

[Keullo-e]

Try this while you at it

Heh. Not gonna connect that to the interwebs, in fact I always disable LAN on every PC.

I have an USB wlan stick on my gaming PC

 

[lexluthermiester]

Burning a Win2k disc, the best OS ever and best for Socket A things

I would still go with XP, but Win2k was very good after SP4!

 

[Keullo-e]

I would still go with XP, but Win2k was very good after SP4!

I was the dude who loved 2K more than XP..

2K NEVER crashed!

 

[lexluthermiester]

2K NEVER crashed!

Oh that's not true. It did. Less often than Xp certainly, but it had it's share of BSOD's.

 

[Keullo-e]

Oh that's not true. It did. Less often than Xp certainly, but it had it's share of BSOD's.

With a stable system, I had no crashes. The only crashes I had was with an overclocked unstable PC

 

[lexluthermiester]

With a stable system, I had no crashes. The only crashes I had was with an overclocked unstable PC

I met with the occasional driver related crash and very rarely a program crash but otherwise, yeah is was usually solid.

 

[Keullo-e]

I met with the occasional driver related crash and very rarely a program crash but otherwise, yeah is was usually solid.

The only driver crash I had with 2K was a fucking networking card... that sucked, but otherwise like I told, it never crashed

 

[Mr.Scott]

Burning a Win2k disc, the best OS ever and best for Socket A things

Depends on what you're gonna do with it.
2D benching on socket A is XP all the way.
3D benching is split between 2000 and XP, pending the bench.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Depends on what you're gonna do with it.
2D benching on socket A is XP all the way.
3D benching is split between 2000 and XP, pending the bench.

Gaming is Xp..

 

[Keullo-e]

Depends on what you're gonna do with it.
2D benching on socket A is XP all the way.
3D benching is split between 2000 and XP, pending the bench.

3DMark 2000, 2001 SE and 03

If this isn't pretty, then nothing is

 

[phill]

LN2 on all of my chips in the past. Nothing beats the thrill of it.

Just shy of 8.1GHz on an FX8350.
Second fastest i7 920 D0 in the world on wPrime (could do more, was limited by the current config of the SATA ports!)
118% OC on my E2140 as a daily driver.
The worlds fastest G3258 and at the time, number one R15 CPU. No longer have it as I sold it for three times what I paid, and deleted my account since. Damn!

You might have been knocked off if I'd gone further with mine Still wished you sold me that G3258

I have to admit that the 920 D0's where so much fun to play around with.. I've really enjoyed having mine even when I never got to use it for nearly 2 years

I think for a memorable one it would have been something to do with my first Duron I had, back years and years ago... Staying up trying to get better 3D Mark 2000 scores and such, it was great fun The sweat and worry when the system wouldn't post as well
Also my first water cooling adventure and I've never looked back on doing that since

So many memories, I'm not sure there's room for one on the top spot

 

[xtreemchaos]

ive still got a copy win 2000 somewhere, been meaning to do a classic build to show grandkids what was like in the good old days it will save me having to tell them about floppy and zip drives too.

 

[Durvelle27]

FX-8350 was the most fun clocker. Hit 5.7GHz on water

 

[lexluthermiester]

3DMark 2000, 2001 SE and 03

If this isn't pretty, then nothing is

It could use a bit of cleaning up for the camera, but very cool indeed. They were cool looking even back then.

it will save me having to tell them about floppy and zip drives too.

I still have those, fully working.

 

[biffzinker]

3DMark 2000, 2001 SE and 03

If this isn't pretty, then nothing is

Somebody painted the L1 for multiplier overclocking. Any idea what it was overclocked to before?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Somebody painted the L1 for multiplier overclocking. Any idea what it was overclocked to before?

I was wondering about that on those L1 contact lands. Do you think it was that soldered and then painted over? Can't see it clearly enough from the angle of the picture.

 

[biffzinker]

Could be loctite or car defogger repair kit painted over.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Even #2 pencil worked.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Even #2 pencil worked.

I actually did that. Worked like a charm until it was rubbed off. Once you found an OC that worked you could solder it and use enamel paint to protect it from shorting out.

 

[biffzinker]

I actually did that. Worked like a charm until it was rubbed off. Once you found an OC that worked you could solder it and use enamel paint to protect it from shorting out.

I remember scotch tape being used as well.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I remember scotch tape being used as well.

I saw that a few times too.

 

[dorsetknob]

I remember scotch tape being used as well.

wot about bacofoil and nail varnish yup that also works

 

[Mr.Scott]

Yup. I use clear nail polish.

 

[Keullo-e]

Somebody painted the L1 for multiplier overclocking. Any idea what it was overclocked to before?

In fact I OC'd that to 1403MHz via FSB, that Asrock board doesn't have multiplier settings on bios :S

 

[HammerON]

I really didn't start overclocking CPU's until the Core 2 Duo era. The first CPU that I was able to reach 4.0 GHz was a E8400. I then got a E8500 that I was able to get to 4.33 GHz:

I then moved onto the i7 920's and enjoyed overclocking them for crunching.

My favorite I think though is the i7 970 I had for quite a while. Would crunch at 4.0 GHz 24/7 and temps were great (under water). For benching though, I was able to get it up to 4.7 GHz: