Anyone OC'ed legacy PC's

O/C'd my P166 to 233mhz. Lasted about 2 years before the chip died. Still using the speakers and keyboard from that rig to this day :)
 
I had a P233MMX running at just over 300Mhz with various mods to the mobo and a massive blower pointed at the heatsink. It soon bacame unstable and got ******* hot!

Died after a few months.
 
1st ever pc and overclock was a duron 750 to 900 (although it wasn't me that clocked it..) i started to fiddle and had the beast at 1000mhz :D

xp2200+ at 2ghz (thoroughbred)

xp 1700+ @ 2.5ghz (:D)

xp-m 2500+ at 2.6 on air, and it did 3ghz on water :eek: lovely 2.1v going through it, abit nf7-s used for that ofc..

Clocked dloads of xp's, thats where i learnt, then went on to the a64's, a short stint with an 805 @ 4.2ghz and striaght into c2d's. All been great fun though.
 
I got my router running at 256mhz over 200mhz with low load temps of 45c

Yeah... it runs linux :D

I used to overlock my serial modem from a 28.8k to a 33.6k using an unofficial firmware update and some pencil modding (USR i love you!)

And what else... I once tried overclocking a 286 cyrix chip in an Amstrad which ended in tears. Bad because it was bought for about $5,000 but not so bad because it was 15 years obsolete.
 
Jumpers what a luxury.

The old Kit used Oscillator blocks.
Basically a crystal and Oscillator circuit in a metal can.
If you were lucky they were socketed, if not then it was soldering iron time.

Used to make adapters out of veroboard 4 pins on the bottom to solder into the motherboard and 2 sockets on top.
One for the square oscillators and one for the oblong ones, they came in 2 sizes.

Overclocking is not new.
It's just that every one can do it these days.
Zero skill is required to alter a few numbers in the bios.
 
PCZ said:
Jumpers what a luxury.

The old Kit used Oscillator blocks.
Basically a crystal and Oscillator circuit in a metal can.
If you were lucky they were socketed, if not then it was soldering iron time.

Used to make adapters out of veroboard 4 pins on the bottom to solder into the motherboard and 2 sockets on top.
One for the square oscillators and one for the oblong ones, they came in 2 sizes.

Overclocking is not new.
It's just that every one can do it these days.
Zero skill is required to alter a few numbers in the bios.
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Did you by any chance write the Hovis adverts that used to be on TV?
 
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