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What was the best CPU for overclocking of all time?

Emlyn_Dewar said:
My brain shut down for a second when it read "I heard AMD bulldozer was pretty good" but then it finally got back up to speed and read the final 2 words "for OC". :D
True, definitely some people getting solid overclocks out of them, also getting some extreme power usage from them too!
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In this same vein though some people were getting 6+GHz clocks out of the Pentium Ds - and barely seeing a real world uplift in performance... I had similar with a Celeron I used in a secondary system, so long ago now I can't remember details, massive clock speed increase but mediocre real world performance uplift.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
My brain shut down for a second when it read "I heard AMD bulldozer was pretty good" but then it finally got back up to speed and read the final 2 words "for OC". :D
True, definitely some people getting solid overclocks out of them, also getting some extreme power usage from them too!
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Shoukd have put the “for oc” in bold and all caps, cause that was terrible everywhere else!
 
Pete Tong said:
The Celeron 300A was good for another 150mhz. But the Athlon mobile Barton chips were awesome too.
The Core 2 Duo 6400 could go from 2.7 to 4.4 albeit it flaked out after a few months.

Which CPU do you hold dear in your heart for all the tinkering fun it gave you?
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Celeron 300A
AMD Athlon CPU's - pencil's out !
 
5000 black edition was a nice chip for the money when overclocked. So was the Pentium 805.

What made the celerons so legendary, was the ability to use a pair of them in something like a Abit BP6 and end up with a system capable of running pair in SMP at close to 1ghz each. At that time having a system with that kind of performance at home was difficult to imagine.

For me the greatest overclocking CPU comes down to the Opteron 165 or 2550/2500K.
 
nlel1975 said:
About time you upgraded, I ditched my i5-2500k back in 2018 after owning it since 2011. In benchmarks today the i5-2500k looks slow but for general internet use it doesn't matter as that type of usage doesn't saturate the CPU.
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Oh, an upgrade is way overdue, but it’s still running the games I want to play at decent frame rates at 1080p.

Alas, it’ll have to wait until after we downsize our house.
 
I passed my i5 2500k machine to my nephew when i upgraded to my 2700X build. Still running fantastically at 4.5Ghz but i think I maxed it around 4.8-ish when i really pushed it.
 
I had 2600k and 5930k. Both would overclock to 4.5Ghz without breaking a sweat which I think was 1000Mhz bump for each?
 
My i5 2500K, ran at 4.6 with my Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler.

I bought it the day Bulldozer came out after seeing all the Bulldozer reviews, how times have changed :cry:
 
Does unlocking extra cores count as overclocking? If so, the legendary Phenom II gave me an extra core for free (and two extra for my mate).
 
I don't think you can beat the socket 775 Core2Duo's and Pentiums as many were capable of 100%+ overclocks. I had a 1.6Ghz E 2140 that easily did a 2Ghz overclock to 3.6Ghz, a 1.8Ghz E2160 that ran at 3.6Ghz 24/7 a a E4300 that did the same. I also had a Conroe E6600 that did 3.8Ghz, A E5200 that did 3.6Ghz, a Q6600 that did 3.6Ghz, a E8500 that did 4.5Ghz, a Q9550 that did 4.2Ghz and there were several others I had a play with. That was the golden age of overclocking and is sadly long gone. Overclocking is just about dead now with cpu's already clocked to their limits straight from the factory.
 
Remember doing the pencil trick.

The Abit/DFi motherboards.

Still got a AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ with shim :D .

Still use my launch purchase P5K Premium and Q6600 G0. Still holds 3.9GHz with 8GB 1000MHz.

Regret selling my i5 4690K, did 4.9GHz on air with ease, would even get in to OS and run light tests at 5.2GHz with very reasonable voltage. When I sold it asked the buyer if he was into OC, said nope, be running stock :(.
 
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gupsterg said:
Remember doing the pencil trick.

The Abit/DFi motherboards.

Still got a AMD Athlon XP-M 2400+ with shim :D .

Still use my launch purchase P5K Premium and Q6600 G0. Still holds 3.9GHz with 8GB 1000MHz.

Regret selling my i5 4690K, did 4.9GHz on air with ease, would even get in to OS and run light tests at 5.2GHz with very reasonable voltage. When I sold it asked the buyer if he was into OC, said nope, be running stock :(.
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yes, all of that :)

AXIA Y 1ghz athlon ran at abouit 1.6 i recall.

I still have my DFI lanparty mobo and dangerden CPU and GPU watercooling blocks in the garage in a box. I think it was NF7 chipset and XP-m2500 CPU - Happy days

Edit. Actually it was the NF2 ultra b DFI board.
 
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