Your FIRST overclock

PhillyDee · 15 Mar 2007 at 01:19

Thought id start up a (hopefully) popular thread.
Apologies if this is already poking about somewhere. . .

Your First Overclock.
Mine was a Pentium 200 MMX . . . Made it run at (I believe) 250MMX by playing with the DIP switches on the motherboard.
I remember this system well. First PC i bought with my own money. It had 32Mb RAM. (Upgraded from 16MB)

Edward01 · 15 Mar 2007 at 02:39

As far as I can remember mine was only a pII, (I know nothing as early as yours)m but by bestn was a 600 celeron I had running at 900 for 3 years or so!!

JeffyB · 15 Mar 2007 at 03:18

I'm relatively new to overclocking and it was also my first self built pc. An amd64 3700+ san diego, dfi nf4 and an xp-90c cooler, got it stable at 2.8ghz after much reading, tinkering and nervous reboots. Seems like a long time ago, now i sail through bios' without a second thought

Nick1881 · 15 Mar 2007 at 06:43

Mine was an AMD 1700+, got it to 2.2Ghz on air. Still got that cpu mobo and cooler in my cuboard, wonder if its worth anything.

MeatLoaf · 15 Mar 2007 at 08:06

Mine was a P166MMX, by changing the jumpers on the mobo i got it to run at 180Mhz

markeh · 15 Mar 2007 at 08:26

First proper one was I think an Athlon 700 Slot A, that you had to take the plastic case off to put on a external board with dip switches on it. Had to move the PSU outside my case as it sat right over the processor...

basmic · 15 Mar 2007 at 08:32

Celeron 400 running at about 504 MHz.

I'll never forget buying the biggest Socket 370 heatsink and fan I could find for it, and people were going " :eek:

****ing hell, how big is that fan?"

WoZZeR · 15 Mar 2007 at 08:37

My 200 MMX spent it's whole life at 225!!

My 333 Celeron sat for months at 397-399 or thereabouts.

After that I stopped O/Cing as there didn't seem much point, kind of getting back into it now.

Justintime · 15 Mar 2007 at 08:48

486 something, can't remember what

azzerz · 15 Mar 2007 at 09:03

C2D, last month

Messiah Khan · 15 Mar 2007 at 09:14

200mmx, pushed it up to 233 from what I remember. I don't think i clocked my PII 350 after that, but I did clock my Duron 700 up to 900mhz!!!

geff_r · 15 Mar 2007 at 09:18

[email protected] ghz on air

perry081064 · 15 Mar 2007 at 09:50

E6300 @ 2.4

...dont snigger, im still learning

lesz42 · 15 Mar 2007 at 10:07

Cyrix ? 233 oced to 266........

ajgoodfellow · 15 Mar 2007 at 10:08

That would be an AMD K6/2 350MHz to 400MHz by changing the jumpers on the motherboard!

spb251272 · 15 Mar 2007 at 11:30

ajgoodfellow said:
That would be an AMD K6/2 350MHz to 400MHz by changing the jumpers on the motherboard!

Same here! I thought I was bloody marvellous when I did that. I also remember when I got an nvidia tnt2, and it had a FAN on it!!! I thought it must be one mighty piece of kit to need a fan

Habit · 15 Mar 2007 at 11:31

First and only OC.
E6300 @ 3.1

Chris Beard · 15 Mar 2007 at 13:32

805D - up to 3333Mhz (not a great board) - now at like 3.2.

My first and only clock. The community seems to be getting a lot bigger with the 805D and now Core2Duo... How long do you recon it is before we get so big Intel starts locking the FSB?

PhillyDee · 15 Mar 2007 at 13:36

I think if they did that it would be like shooting themselves in the foot.

Cairnsey · 15 Mar 2007 at 13:52

p120 to 133Mhz. Whoa. Then P200 to 250, remember finding out the secret 3.5x multiplyer that wasn't listed in the manual or printed on the board and got soo excited, but 3.5x75fsb wasn't stable. then the mighty celly 300 to 450 (a simple 66mhz to 100mhzfsb increase) another 633mhz celly to 950mhz ( I still have this system!) and my trusty p4 which I have now. Yep, I keep my computers for a hell of a long time!