I´m still kinda new to overclocking in general, back in my early days I used to avoid it, feared I might break something and loose the precious components I had saved my pocket money on for years and years.
I was so jealous of the 'rich' kids getting new PCs with expensive intel chips and high end GPUs every year and a half. I was on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 for many years, still using it when Sandy-Bridge was long out. Back then I had no chance to OC my CPU and I did not dare to push the GPU.
This only changed recently when I started my Ryzen build and started to check into overclocking. I learned a lot and now there is not a single PC / Notebook in my house that runs on stock clocks and voltages.
The most fun I had was certainly while fooling around with C2D stuff recently. Tweaking the FSB to achieve the clocks, many different voltages to balance out while probing highest possible FSB, RAM and CPU clocks. Setting deviders accordingly. The whole thing is just a lot of fun to play around with, you dont get to dial in something and hit the hard limit within 30 minutes of testing. It is a whole journey every time, and everytime you think you could do just a bit better, just a few MHz more if I try this or maybe that...
Really got me hooked. Sadly our little competition here died down quick.
And finally coming to my most fun overclocking chip, that would be the E8500 sample that I got lucky with. Under ambient watercooling I pushed it beyond 5.1 GHz. On a more daily-safe voltage of 1.45V it would still hold 4.8 GHz. Compared to the other C2Ds I tested this one was jaw dropping to me. I just upped to clock again and again and couldn´t believe it still ran. Don´t know if it is any good compared to other peoples results but I was impressed. I can´t help but imagine what joy my childhood self would have had with this one. I could have run all my games smooth and not have to play with a headache for hours at 15-25fps.
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