The first time you heard of overclocking?

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Thought this mite be an interesting thread,
what got you into or when was the first time you ever heard the phrase / term overclocking in regards to a computer or cpu?

The first time I heard of overclocking I was still in primary school I think, we were discussing pentium 3s and my friends older brother was explaining how his friend had clocked his chip at 1Ghz which sounded amazing to me as I had a 600MHz PIII at the time and the method used for cooling was something along the lines of cutting a hole in the side of the case and using air ventilation tubing to either exhaust or intake air not sure; it sounded pretty whacky at the time.

My first experience overclocking was a AMD Athlon X64, I had been playing around with it a few times and without much knowledge decided to crank the FSB a little bit too high while I had been drinking good old sailor jerry's and it killed the chip :-) fortunately it wasn't an expensive computer I had scraped the parts together for free.
 
I first found out about overclocking on Yahoo back in about 2001, which took me to theoverclockingstore.co.uk (RIP) and then from there I found out about Overclockers.

My first overclock was a P3 866mhz, which I replaced the cooler with a golden orb and then clocked it to about 911mhz before the fsb caused errors, due to it also overclocking the PCI and AGP bus until the nForce2 mobos came out.

Check out the l33tness !!! :D

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MW
 
Think it was in an issue of pc gamer magazine. Round the time i first thought about getting into pc's, (mohaa game to blame). Read a few reviews of cpu's/gpu's and it mentioned oc'ing. Coincidentally it was reading one of theese reviews and ocuk was listed as a retailer of components, logged onto the shop and eventually ordered the parts for my first rig. This of course then led to clicking the forum link where i eventually decided to register. Didnt oc that first rig as tbh i was a bit scared. A64 4000 s939 setup.

Eventually upgraded to an E6600 c2d system, this was the first rig i decided to oc, eventually getting that cpu to 3.7ghz.
 
I remember overclocking my Cyrix 6x86 p166 on a PCChips mobo I think it was.

cant remember what i got it up to though.
 
Ha i recognise that case anywhere, its the same one in still using, Chieftec ftw +D

For me it was my thunderbird i bought in about 98-99 not too sure, first pc i bought with my own money. Was about 750mhz i believe, i found numorous ways to make it crash by fiddling around in the bios. The fun didnt really start untill i got my hands on a Athlon 1700 and 1800xp a couple of years later, then it all kicked off with voltmodding, water cooling, phase change and so on.
 
BluD said:
Ha i recognise that case anywhere, its the same one in still using, Chieftec ftw +D
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Chieftec Scorpio, I then upgraded to the Chieftec Dragon case. Both had a window and fire neons before modding became tacky and main stream :D

MW
 
Remember having a Cyrix and an Athlon 1700+ back in the day when AMD were amazing chips. I could never turn away from Intel now, not since AMD lied about Bulldozers been 8 core chips ! Great stories guys really fun to read these :D

+1 for your P3 Mr-White

What about graphics card overclocking; any early geforce users managed to overclock their cards?
 
I first came across overclocking about 14 years ago. I can't remember where from but I do remember thinking, wow this is great, I can get more power for free. I then built my first PC using an AMD CPU and a Supermicro Tower case, for better cooling !

At the time it was a toss up between the Asus and the MSI motherboard for overclocking support. I went for the MSI and proceeded to play around with the bios, upping clock speeds and voltages until I got it stable.

In fact, I only got rid of that PC last year and it was overclocked all that time :eek:
 
The first time i did overclocking was my misconception
Had a Barton 2400+ at 1.8Ghz front bus 266FSB
I was thinking that i am overclocking it by razing to 333FSB making it a 2.1Ghz
But that was the actual working speed of the CPU
Found out after 3 years :)
 
My first was a Duron 700, clocked all the way to 1100MHz, which was rather magnificent at the time. He still lives, albeit at 700MHz, running a dukebox 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
 
tres_kun said:
The first time i did overclocking was my misconception
Had a Barton 2400+ at 1.8Ghz front bus 266FSB
I was thinking that i am overclocking it by razing to 333FSB making it a 2.1Ghz
But that was the actual working speed of the CPU
Found out after 3 years :)
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haha cool, I guess this is why we compare benchmark scores these days :P
 
My first in about '94 was a 486DX2 66Mhz overclocked to a 486DX2 80Mhz with the click of a dipswitch on the mobo. 33MHz bus to 40MHz bus.

My favourite has to be the Athlon Thoroughbred 1700+ of which I had several on nvidia mobos with thermalright copper heatsinks. Stock was 1466Mhz, max OC was about 1Ghz higher. Very noisy rig and prone to melting bits with voltage. Needed to pin mod the processor to get high multis.
 
Flashing memories of my old 486 playing lemmings and wolfenstein :-) I remember mine had a turbo switch but never noticed much difference in processing.
 
I cant remember where I heard of it. But my first overclock was taking my P4 Northwood from 2.8GHz to 3.2GHz :p
 
horrorxpunk said:
Flashing memories of my old 486 playing lemmings and wolfenstein :-) I remember mine had a turbo switch but never noticed much difference in processing.
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Yeah, most old PC's had a turbo button on the front together with the reset and power. Do not think it did much. The mobo I had, had a dipswitch bank for 33|40|50 Mhz bus and a 1x|2x multiplier. My first processor in the board was a 486DX33 or 1x 33, I replaced the processor with the DX2 66 version 2x 33 and tried the 2x 40 setup which worked. I was quite chuffed. It was not easy though as ZIF (zero insertion force) sockets had not been invented then and it was quite a push to install it.
 
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