What was your first experience at overclocking?

[itchy]

I have searched and not found a thread about this.

Me

In 1998 I overclocked a Pentium 166mmx to a 233mmx, I was a little apprehensive as I thought everything would go POP! Them
bloody jumper pins!

But it was a success and I have never looked back since!

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I made an AMD processor go from 100 to 120 by moving a jumper in the mid 90s sometime.
Around the same time I had a Cyrix processor I had to underclock so it would work.

 

[ElliorR]

It was back in the early 80s when I dressed like Flavor Flav.

 

[itchy]

The old K5 from AMD I remember, Cyrix I forgot about them!

 

[deusexlumina]

socket 939 x2, 3800+ from AMD. Had no real idea what i was doing, was a pre made machine so the BIOS was locked down. Instead used nvidia's Ntune software to try and do it which was a big mistake. It automatically overclcoked my RAM and PCIE lane speed as well as my processor....with the result that all video/audio become out of sync with each other.

Then tried it on a x2 6000+ 3.0Ghz, that was pretty much the limit of the architecture so i could only squeeze another 0.2Ghz out of it at the max voltage.

Best experience was with a 1055T - did it right that time and got it up to 4.0Ghz, was a great chip.

 

[OhEsEcks]

Didn't start until Core 2. Never felt the need. And I only dabbled with it. Still don't feel the need to these days either as any CPU I've had is more than enough for what I needed at the time.

 

[craptakular]

Cyrix for me.

 

[Bluecube]

A P2-300 that I bumped upto 450mhz. It then ran like that for years. On stock cooling as well!

 

[NexusK]

I think it was an Opteron of some description around 10 years ago.

 

[Jokester]

First overclocking (and watercooling) was taking an FX51 to 2.5GHz.

 

[doofer]

Desperately trying to find out how to clear/reset the BIOS and then when finding out it was Ctrl+F2 or whatever voodoo it happened to be, how to time it just right so it ****ing worked.

 

[itchy]

AMD FX cpu`s they were the dogs ******** at the time, could never afford one though!

 

[rubberduck]

I think it was a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400mhz

 

[LizardKing]

The turbo button

but in reallity, it was a 166mmx @ 200 i think. So glad jumper pins are a thing of the past!

 

[Wrathamon]

I had one of the killer AMD Duron 600MHz that would overclock to 1GHz.

Later I replaced that with an AMD Athlon 1GHz (AXIA core) and overclocked to either 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz.

 

[ubern00b]

Fairly sure I remember getting a 486DX4-100 to run as a 120 but that was so long ago the details are quite fuzzy.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

First PC I had was a PII 350MHz (1999), but I didn't overclock until 2004. That was a P4 2800 MHz HT in a Shuttle PC, but luckily it had the "full" BIOS, not the cut-down one seen on laptops. Managed to o/c 2800 to around 3166 on stock cooling as the FSB/multiplier gave multiples of 33 IIRC.

 

[Robzere31]

P1 150mhz overclocked to 180mhz

 

[swampy]

overclocking a geforce 2 mx400 and wishing I had an ultra

 

[Hades]

I think it was a Pentium 600E that ran as an 800 of you just changed the FSB.