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So its been quite a few years now that the fun of overclocking cpu's has been on the scene.

The days of setting the jumpers on Pentium boards to knock a 266 to oblivion and now having to spend hours with your face glued to your bios, tweaking voltages to get that last mhz out of your c2d.

In the years of you're overclocking, what has to be the best chip you have had? Not having to put the radiator on cos the sheer heat output is enough to keep a bear in hibernation. You know, the one's where you kick back in you're chair, hands behind head, geekish smile on face thinking "Yeah baby, have it".

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E6600. I love this chip, previously my p4's refused to bo past even a 150mhz bump so getting actually notable performance out of a chip that is currently aging very well was very pleasing.
 
I had a 754 A64 3000 mobile with 1 meg cache which I got for £30 when the 3700+ was extreme expensive. Got it up to 2.5ghz which wasn't too shabby given the stepping and price.
I've had chips that have clocked better but none that were so cheap.
 
Would have to be my Opteron 165 clocked on a DFI SLi-DR:

Pushed it just past 3ghz on air (67% overclock) which i was very proud of at the time.

Of my recent chips the e2160 i bought off Devious was a peach. Clocked on a Gigabyte P35 DS3P:

That ran @ 3.6ghz under water (100% overclock) - lovely chip.

In terms of price - both were cheap. Think i paid around £40-£50 for the Opty and just over £50 for the e2160.

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I must admit i got the most satisfaction out of getting my current chip to 5.1ghz 24/7 stable. But going back in time, the most fun and satisfaction i had was getting an XP1700 (1.4ghz) 24/7 stable at 2.3ghz. That was one amazing chip. Did'nt keep it for long though because i moved on to an XP2500 Mobile.
 
for me the e6600, i was blown away by the difference in power over my athlon x2 - the fact you could easily get a 30%+ overclock on it with little difficulty was just brilliant at the time, so much so i've come to expect it of every intel chip i buy now.
 
Upgrading from a 386 SX25 to a 486 DX266 must have given me the biggest increase that I can ever remember in PC's. Almost every other upgrade (CPU wise), whilst worthwhile, as been a small incremental upgrade compared to the difference the above made to my PC.
 
Paid £20 for an E6320 a few weeks ago. It had never been clocked and now its running at 3.7ghz best computer related bargain Ive ever had.

However when I bought my Opty 165 and got it past 3ghz for the first time the sense of achievement was huge.
 
Barton 1.8 - overclocked to 2.4 on air easily and still going strong. Bargain chip. The current Opteron at 2.8 is pretty good too.
 
Q6600 - 3.8 @ 1.4 ( 1.375 in windows )
E6600 - 3.2 @ 1.4 (1.35 in windows )

paid £70 for the Q6 and £45 for the E6 both stonking chips which completely overshadowed my previous X2 3800 @ 2.8
 
E6320 got it to 3.5-3.7Ghz probably the best chip I've clocked.

Currently playing with a E2180 at 3.0Ghz at the moment
 
this thread rocks!

opty 146 cabye(?) maybe... cant really remember! on dfi sli-dr back in the day! 3.2ghz

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again the old xp1700 was a personal fave, the chip that just kept giving! lol! tryin to wangle one again out of a friend for a retro overclock system! whack it on a nf7s and maybe even see if i can find some bh5!
 
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