Classic overclocking for the old boys!

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Very nice :)

Makes me want to dig out my old socket A stuff esp since i have a brand new nf7 sitting in the loft and a few xp-m chips lying around...no phase though :(

What cpu was that with? Guessing a mobile one?

Mental voltage...think i got my to about 2500/2600 at 1.9v.

Did you manage to run super pi at that clock?

Prob about 36s if i rem right.

What bios were you using? Still got some modded ones somewhere i think that worked wonders along with the L2 bridge wire in socket trick.

Nice speed on the ram for 512 sticks....had a pair of 256 ones that did 256MHz at 2-2-2-6 iirc.....happy first days overclocking :)
 
I'm not old :( although I was reading through some of my first posts over on oc.com from when I first started with my 1600XP and my kx7-333r and got all nostalgic
 
Thanks.
It was a 2800+ Cant find my mobile :(

Didnt run Pi didnt have a week spare to let it run lol. Na didnt see any point the install of XP wasnt any good.

As for the Bios it was just the std bios This Abit NF7a was spot on didnt have to mob or play about with it.

I have a 3200+ that years ago i had to 2525 on stock volts but not sure why it wouldnt boot at the temps:( bit gutted tbh i had my eye on the World record with that chip.

I got 9th with 2800+ though so at least something good came from it.

I have a socket 771 on the desk but cant find a bios for it. The board is from an old Advent and it will not evan let me change the voltage!!.
 
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I should have a new SS soon so when that turns up will have another go with some other bits i have.

I have 2 slot 1 P3s.If i get the chance will do a run with them. Think they are 933s lol should be funny if nothing else..
 
It's less than 10 years ago that I was scribbling on Durons with graphite pencils and painting Athlons with silver paint in the process of overclocking!

I still have working, perfectly capable systems with Athlon XP-M and XP (Barton) CPUs. There are so many regular people out there using worse on a day to day basis.
 
That brings back some memories, what a pain in the backside job it was too.
Still got the pot of rear demister repair paint lying around somewhere :)
 
The things you would do to get another 300mhz from something (On a good day) :)

Ben Cole said:
I still have working, perfectly capable systems with Athlon XP-M and XP (Barton) CPUs. There are so many regular people out there using worse on a day to day basis.
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These 2 Coppermine CPUs were running a server till Dec last year. 100% stable and NEVER gave me an ounce of trouble in 7 year
 
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XP-M was the mutts nuts, 2600+ was dirt cheap and you could get them out of the box running at 3200+ (2GHz right?) speeds with little tweaking. Mine was running at that until I got my first SMP board and started using gentoo, having dual processors in a desktop at that time felt amazing, was just so responsive.
 
Ye think the 3200 ran about 2 or 21. I remember getting 2 gig of ram for the 2600. Everyone was like OMG 2 gigs wtf !!! lol.

It was the good old days. Na jk it was hard work and Sloooooow.
 
XP2500+ with NF7 v2 was the first PC I built completely from scratch.
My 2500 wasn't a mobile chip but was still multi-unlocked... :confused: Happily sat at 3200 speeds.
I always remember wanting a Coolermaster JET7+ , thank Christ I didn't go for one... Amazing how far the high end coolers have come.
 
Old?

I remember clocking my Pentium 90MHz Up to a whopping 112MHz back when that involved jumper settings on the motherboard. Things started to get very unstable because you ended up running ISA/PCI buses vastly out of spec.

I did have an immense 80MB of RAM in that system though, so it pee'd on most systems of the age, from a great height. Coupled with my 12MB Voodoo 2s in SLI (using a matrox something or other for 2d), epic.
 
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