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Rotty said:
I'm 99% positive that when the Celeron 300's came out Pete Radford was still in Millennium Computers in the corner unit and SPIE wasn't on the scene. He had Celeron 300's in 3 overclocking sizes and I must have bought at least 30 of them for customers. I even clocked some of them in the shop living next to it. Mind you, round here some of us oldies still call the shop Millennium.
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Did SPIE start the forums or did Pete (MadRad) start them?
(My money is on SPIE).
(My money is on SPIE).
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Scuzi said:It used to be a really sicky/pukey lavender colour
Thats what it was like when I first joined, though it wasn't like that for long. I joined in Oct 2001.
My opinion is that the forums surfaced in 1999 when OcUK became popular due to their guarenteed overclocked Slot A athlons (500@750 etc). I remember they used to be some kind of black colour and I posted some questions about potentially upgrading my 300a to a celeron2 600 or something like that.
Prior to the Oct 2002 reset there was another one in March 2001 following a database corruption or something like that.
Prior to the Oct 2002 reset there was another one in March 2001 following a database corruption or something like that.
Rotty said:for being a grade one arse
Surprised how any of the mod team are still around then
I am guessing they dont sell them anymore due to the warranties and obvious problems with supplying the demand, as I imagine it would be quite high.
I suspect it's also not profitable.
Back when they did sell them, the Athlons for example required opening up to clock them (you had to change a resister I beleive), something the average person couldn't/wouldn't do.
Now most of the time if you can OC a CPU it's all done via the bios.
I think I still have my old Slot A Athlon 700@850 somewhere around here, it's been sitting on the side since the KA7 motherboard usffered the capacitor of death problem.
Back when they did sell them, the Athlons for example required opening up to clock them (you had to change a resister I beleive), something the average person couldn't/wouldn't do.
Now most of the time if you can OC a CPU it's all done via the bios.
I think I still have my old Slot A Athlon 700@850 somewhere around here, it's been sitting on the side since the KA7 motherboard usffered the capacitor of death problem.
Overclocking was slightly more complicated with the use of 'golden fingers' devices or something like that IIRC. But I also think one of the reason that far fewer people were confident enough to actually go about overclocking a system on their own. Nowadays everyman and his dog is messing about in the BIOS and upping the speed, and they don't fancy paying a premium for something that is to all intents and purposes the same as a standard retail unit. Typically the only chips OcUK offered with guarenteed overclocks were models well known for their clocking potential in the first place.... the most recent I can remember was some of the early Northwood chips e.g. [email protected] and also some xp2500+@3200 or something like that.
Furthermore OcUK is now a much more established retailer of computer hardware - it doesn't need a niche market or 'gimmick' to attract custom anymore. That reptuation can be left by the wayside now, especially as it might even scare aware some hardware manufacturers. It now sells a very wide range of hardware, and it wouldn't suprise me if the majority of items now sold are just your standard components rather than overclocking-specific stuff.
Furthermore OcUK is now a much more established retailer of computer hardware - it doesn't need a niche market or 'gimmick' to attract custom anymore. That reptuation can be left by the wayside now, especially as it might even scare aware some hardware manufacturers. It now sells a very wide range of hardware, and it wouldn't suprise me if the majority of items now sold are just your standard components rather than overclocking-specific stuff.
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Werewolf said:
I can remember MadRad using a pencil to overclock a chip. I don't know exactly how it was done but on chips in those days there used to be bits on top of the chips and joining them used to produce the results.