What was your first overclock?

um, athlon 3200+ to 2.3ghz *woop* :rolleyes:

lol poor overclocker - wasnt a great motherboard unfortuently, then my ahtlon 3400+ 2.2ghz to 2.3ghz, lol how poor

then this 1.8ghz semppy to 2.6ghz :)
 
T'was an Intel SX25 oc'd to a massive 40mhz :D
and i dont thik i've ran anything at stock since? oh hang on the Amiga didnt clock :(

Ok so another "old fart"
 
Pentium ll ? 266Mhz -> 300Mhz In an IBM workstation ( 300GPL For those who know the old beauties )
Then a T-Bird 900Mhz -> 950Mhz

Man i was rubbish :p
 
I just remembered where I saw my first overclock. I went to a computer fair back in the early/mid 90's with £350 burning a hole in my pocket. I was escorted by two friends who were both into their PC hardware and they basically spent the money on my behalf! :)

We went back to one of their houses and assembled the gOOds, suffice to say the PC wouldnt bOOt lol

I phoned up the merchant from the computer fair and said "Oi mate this motherboard don't work" he said "Nah it works fine, bring it round to my house and let me take a lOOk". Memories of lugging the whole case on the Tube and heading off to Clapham . . . got to the guys house, his front room was rammed with PC hardware. He set the case down on a table, looked inside, took out the ram, put in some of his own ram and it booted perfect! lol :p

he said "Its your memory mate!" to which I couldn't say very much :o but while I was there he noticed which CPU my mates had bought, think it was an AMD K6/II running at 100MHz ish, he offered to overclock it for me by fiddling with some jumpers. Lol now I think about it that guy was pretty cool.
 
Big.Wayne said:
I just remembered where I saw my first overclock. I went to a computer fair back in the early/mid 90's with £350 burning a hole in my pocket. I was escorted by two friends who were both into their PC hardware and they basically spent the money on my behalf! :)

We went back to one of their houses and assembled the gOOds, suffice to say the PC wouldnt bOOt lol

I phoned up the merchant from the computer fair and said "Oi mate this motherboard don't work" he said "Nah it works fine, bring it round to my house and let me take a lOOk". Memories of lugging the whole case on the Tube and heading off to Clapham . . . got to the guys house, his front room was rammed with PC hardware. He set the case down on a table, looked inside, took out the ram, put in some of his own ram and it booted perfect! lol :p

he said "Its your memory mate!" to which I couldn't say very much :o but while I was there he noticed which CPU my mates had bought, think it was an AMD K6/II running at 100MHz ish, he offered to overclock it for me by fiddling with some jumpers. Lol now I think about it that guy was pretty cool.
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How i wish my memories of "origional computing" were so good lol. I wish something like that had happened to me.
 
I was a late comer, I started with a AMD 2000 thoroughbred with a few mhz overclock on the most god-awful ASRock socket A mobo.

As soon as I found my feet I overclocked everything I could find, the family Pentium 200Mhz (non-MMX version) to 233Mhz, a couple of old Slot 1 Celerons got dealt with too :D
 
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MikeTimbers said:
Noobs.

286-12 upped to 16 by changing the crystal on the motherboard.
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Thank God I'm not the only one, same here with a 80286. I first saw oscillator mods discussed on some old dial up BBS.



IIRC my next one was a 386SX-20, with a co-pro socket, ISA slots and SIMM sticks. As I remember pre DX2 days, overclocking was much more limited as every thing ran at the same bus clocks. Yay for multipliers. I remember having a nice 486DX/2-66 that ran at 80MHz.

 
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Pentium 75 -> 90 Mhz

Looked in the manual and saw there was a jumper to set the clock rate, swapped it over and held my breath (was my parents machine.)

Worked fine, and been doing it ever since.
 
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