RIP 3000+ :(

[Mikebert4]

I'd like to dedicate this small thread to the pasing of an old friend.

Today my week 19 3000+ died a death whilst I was re-routing my watercooling. IHS-les it was crushed by the CPU block as I all-to hastily screwed it back into place.

It's had a long and fruitful life, was bought in 2005 and has been runing my gaming rig ever since. It managed 2.6ghz on an old ASUS A8N-Sli and 2.9Ghz on an Abit KN8-Sli, but it really shone in the latter half of 2006 when i bought it a LanpartyUT Ultra-D to play with. It's been running (100% stable) at 3.4Ghz up to this date. Futherest I ever pushed it was 4.1Ghz, and I lost RAM, HDD and motherboard then. But not this little CPU.

so, Raise your glasses to an old faithful, and morn the pasing of another of these rare few beautiful overclockers.

*bows*

*makes keyring*

 

[Mikebert4]

I've got the Screenie of 4.1 somwhere, though it's burried behind a few reformats, it was done using a water chiller, I think it was on 1.76v or there abouts. It was a while ago. I didn't realise I was that close to the record... dammnation! I would've pushed for it, maybe gone for a cascade to keep the temp sub-zero.

I've just been out and purchased a FX-60. It's only fair to replace that little beauty with somthing worthy.

and yeth, my car keys now adorned with a Celeron 667, a XP 1800+ and this 3000+.

 

[Mikebert4]

Probally...

but still. It wouldn't clock anyway near as well. and we all like the FX-60 right?

It's adorned my key-chain of dead processors, currently 4 occupying.

Pentium II 233Mhz (ran at ~400)
Celeron 667Mhz (ran at ~1.1Ghz)
Athlon XP 1800+ (ran at 1.9Ghz)
A64 3000+ (ran at ~3.4Ghz)

what's next... who knows..

I need to blow up my E6800 next. This could take some doing.