10 years later still rocking at 4ghz

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Morning guys,

I bought an overclocked i7 920 @ 4ghz and gigabyte ex58-ud5 from you guys in December 2009 and its still going strong, 10 years at 4ghz used very day, so any chance of a trade in? May be you could run it for another 10 years or just market it as an example of your great overclocking prowess! Still have the reciept

John

 

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The bios files were supplied by Rich ONeil and Rob Gould and had names like GODLIKE and RELIABLE

Eventually I tweaked it up to 4.2ghz but a few years ago upgraded to 12gb ram and downclocked to 4.0ghz for stabilty.

It came with a Noctua N12 but upgraded it to a N14.

Has been running like a beast for Ten Years!

 

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So on the 10th anniversary I have ordered:

RYZEN 9 3900X TWELVE CORE 4.6GHZ (SOCKET AM4) PROCESSOR - RETAIL
ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO WI-FI (AMD AM4) DDR4 X570 CHIPSET ATX MOTHERBOARD
TEAM GROUP XTREEM " EDITION" 32GB (4X8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C16 3600MHZ QUAD CHANNEL KIT - BLACK
Fractal DEFINE R6 BLACKOUT MIDI TOWER CASE - BLACK
Toshiba P300 3TB 3.5'' SATA High-Performance Hard Drive (OEM)
Corsair Force Series PCIe Gen.4 MP600 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB THICC III Ultra Graphics Card

13% cashback

Already have:

Corsair RM850x PSU
2 x 240gb Samsung 840 EVO
1 x 128gb Sandisk SSD
2 x 1tb Hdd
1 x 750gb Hdd
Asus Sonar Essence STX
Pioneer BDR208D BluRay Drive
Noctua NH D14

So a ten year refresh, my last system was bought from here, I would have loved for OCUK to have my money but I guess they didnt want it, I did order the DDR4 from here so fantastic!

Did order a 3950x but whilst I was waiting for 2nd layer security the item I had in my basket was sold to some one else, go figure!

So I now have a lapped i7 920 @ 4ghz, Gigabyte ex58-ud5 and 12gb 1600 mhz DDR3 that is obsolete!

Now I just need an AM4 mounting kit from Noctua and i'm done!

I'm planning to upgrade the GFX later, the THICC III is about 4% slower than a 2070 Super but £200 less, £340 cheaper than a 2080 Super which is only 15% faster at 4K, law of diminishing returns and FPS per pound says is the best card until next round of Nvidia and Radeon's

I started on Intel with a Pentium 333mhz then a 400mhz, then an Athlon Thunderbird 1 ghz, then an Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to Xp3200+ speeds, did the same with AMD Radeon 9800 Pro which required a bios flash but then become a 9800 XT provided you fitted an a better fan unit. That lasted a few years then bought an overclocked Q6600 for a year or two before I bought my i7. I have upgrade the graphics card a few times 2 x XFX 6800 GT, Hd5850 then 2 x HD 5850, Nvidia 970, Nvidia 1070.

I always though AMD was great but it went down hill from the Athlon XP 3200+

I reckon I must get at least a 4x boost in CPU plus NV Me, SATA 6 and some power savings!

Yes i am reminiscing but I think that's good!

John