Best (stable) OC you got on a piece of junk hardware?

Aegis

Aegis

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Hey there!

I was recently building a little media PC for a friend of mine to a really tight budget and got 2x4GB sticks of vanilla Crucial DDR4 2400 CL17 - much to my amusement/amazement, I got a stable 30% OC on this RAM (3133 at CL18) which got me to thinking - what seemingly innocuous bits of cheap tat have you gotten to perform well outside of their rated specs?
 
Ooof! That's awesome - that poor little C2D thrashed to 210% of its stock performance! Nice job! :D

On a related note, those Asus Pxx Deluxe motherboards were awesome weren't they? I still have a P6T Deluxe with an i7 965.
 
That's pretty impressive given how hot that generation ran! I had a dual P4 Xeon setup then which I never even dreamt of overclocking 'cause it sounded like a turbine even at idle :D
 
That's wild! Always nice to get an extra 50% performance for free! Overclocking gains these days seem mostly more modest in comparison - I get that technically these chips are already internally boosting their clocks based on thermals and power but pushing these things to perform beyond their spec has always been part of the fun of building PCs to me :)
 
Ha! Nice! At least that card went out in a blaze of glory! Better to burn out than fade away eh? :D Congrats on the (then) WR!!!
 
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