Your FIRST overclock

simonnance · 15 Mar 2007 at 14:14

Opty 146 @ 2.85Ghz

I'm still fairly new to this, but learning fast.

Tute · 15 Mar 2007 at 14:51

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

Same here, 400MHz was the most that motherboard would take as well.

The Running Man · 15 Mar 2007 at 14:58

Duron 750 @ 999Mhz on an ABIT KT7A

Althon TB AYJA 1.4Ghz @ 1.7Ghz (something like that anyway)

ghgh · 15 Mar 2007 at 15:07

PIII-450 @ 600MHz on an abit BE6.

Messiah Khan · 15 Mar 2007 at 15:26

Nickg said:
Duron 750 @ 999Mhz on an ABIT KT7A

Althon TB AYJA 1.4Ghz @ 1.7Ghz (something like that anyway)

Thats the same board I used for my Duron.

jellybeard999 · 15 Mar 2007 at 15:30

XP2500-M at nigh on 2.8ghz

Angus02 · 15 Mar 2007 at 15:50

This is my 1st attempt at it.

Was the proud owner of a Dell before getting this.

tripitaka · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:08

I got my P120 running at 133.

Had to do it with jumpers on the motherboard - was able to change both fsb and multiplier if I remember correctly...

Tried pushing it to 150 but it wouldn't boot

overcl0cker · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:53

Mine was an Athlon 1800, got it to 2.6 and it wouldn't boot after that :]

matja · 15 Mar 2007 at 16:58

My uncle's 486SX-25 I was borrowing - flick of a DIP switch, 33MHz. HELL YEA feel the SPEED

basmic · 15 Mar 2007 at 17:16

matja said:
My uncle's 486SX-25 I was borrowing - flick of a DIP switch, 33MHz. HELL YEA feel the SPEED

The thing is, when you overclock the 486 CPUs - you really can feel the speed! :cool:

About the only time you feel the speed after overclocking today's CPUs, is when giving the CPU some hard work. I found overclocking a 486 reaped an overall performance boost in all applications, not just games.

The Running Man · 15 Mar 2007 at 17:16

messiah khan said:
Thats the same board I used for my Duron.

heh quality, i still have my KT7A but it was only a rev1

sold my cpu though!

was yours a PRE OC'ed Duron 750@ 1Ghz from here? mine was!

Street · 15 Mar 2007 at 18:41

Mine was my first ever PC.. Didn't really understand what I was doing, just changed some jumpers on the motherboard and overclocked my Pentium 90Mhz to something a little higher, can't remember what now. I just did it because it looked cool on the POST screen saying a higher number than it should!

MikeTimbers · 16 Mar 2007 at 08:02

By replacing the soldered crystal on a motherboard, upped a 12MHz 286 to 16MHz.

Jack Bauer · 16 Mar 2007 at 08:36

athlon 900 @ 1.1 GHz. Just wanted to Break the massive 1 GHz at the time

player · 16 Mar 2007 at 10:09

AMD K6-2 350 @ 400

new chip for free... I was amazed

Insanity · 16 Mar 2007 at 12:38

Started really late in the game.

X2 3800 from 2ghz to 2.7ghz, wasnt stable. Dropped back to 2.6ghz which was stable untill summer hit. Currently sitting on 2.5ghz.

YorkshirePadd26 · 16 Mar 2007 at 14:33

P75 from 75Mhz to 90mhz.

Was a beast of a system !

Intel Pentium P75
8MB RAM
512MB Harddrive
14inch SVGA monitor
Cirrus logic graphics card 1Mb I think.
Sound blaster sound card.

This was state fo the art cost like £1700 of my parents good money, they thought is would be educational to buy it and all it ever got used for was MS Golf and of course coping text from encarta for my homework.

Wish I had £1700 to spend on a PC !

_-SIRUS-_ · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:14

AMD K6-2 350 @ 400
and the 1 gig axia chip cant remember the o/c but it was a very good chip in its day

Bones · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:28

486 DX66 over clocked to 100mghz, and managed to run quake 1!!!! it went to 120mhz but windows was unstable. i also doubled my ram 4 to 8mb and noticed some graphical improvements in SWOS