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I had the 533a, was an absolute beast, 800 was easy, ran it at 833 in the winter. Coppermine was a boss.
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I have no idea why the 980X is on here and not the i7 920. Which had a ton more overclocking headroom at a fraction the price and a ton more of us had it then the 980X. While I eventually owned multiple W3690 Xeons which were theoretically 980X's and they were good chips. For a overclocking value proposition. 920 destroyed the 980X.
Absolutely.The Duron 600 belongs on this list.
In my eyes its right up there with the celron 300a.
You ain't the only oneShit, that Celeron 300A brings back memories. When I saw the link for the article, I thought that the Celeron had to be #1. That was a huge overclock. That was also when I started reading the [H], daily....along with voodoo extreme - remember that site? Damn, I feel old.
Good list. I still use my Athlon Xp 1700+ regularly. How the hell do you get 2.2ghz out of it?! All I can must is 1.62ghz.
Does your chip have a green die or purple? What color is the packaging, brown like in the review, or green?
You need the Rev B to really OC. They easily were ~500Mhz faster then the Rev A.
I have had every cpu on the list, except for the 980X. I had a 970 @ 4.3Ghz since it was cheaper then an 980X even with My Rampage II EXtreme added in!!
One of my favorites that really gets overlooked is the AMD X6 hexcores. They had pretty good IPC, and for the value they offered they couldn't be beat. I remember when sirmonkey1985 helped me setup a Linux VM so I could run Big Advance Work Units on our F@H team since my 6 cores @ 4.3Ghz were just as fast as the 4c8t [email protected].
MY personal 5 best were as follows (in terms of sheer OC):
1. 3770K delid @ 5.2Ghz (1.7Ghz OC 40hr Prime95 stable )
2. Q6600 G0 @ 3.6Ghz (1.2Ghz OC)
3. Opteron 165 @ 2.9Ghz (1.1Ghz OC) / Intel 970 @ 4.3ghz (1.1Ghz OC)
4. X6 1055T @ 4.3Ghz (1Ghz OC all 6 core)
5. Athlon 1700B @ 2.4Ghz (~950Mhz OC)
To say I have been blessed by the silicon Gods is a gross understatement.
So this is about absolute performance without price to performance ratio. Ok I get it.The 920's overclocking reputation has been overstated in my experience. I've seen many that couldn't hit 3.6GHz reliably. In fact I had a D0 that couldn't and a C0 that could do 4.2GHz. The Core i7 980X is a choice I knew would be debatable to many people. It was chosen because it was not only the fastest CPU at the time, but a solid overclocker and easily the BEST Extreme Edition CPU of all time. I found 980X's consistently hit good numbers and got a decent overclock. They were also coming out of Microcenter for around $700 on clearance when the 990X came out. While not a "value" CPU, it was certainly a good one. It's also the first CPU that gave us 6 cores and 6 threads. It's the first retail CPU that took us past 4 cores and 4 threads. Again, this wasn't about pure overclock percentages, but performance when overclocked. Back then, the 980X had no equal. And again, I had a Celery 1.8GHz that would do better than 3.0GHz and it was still slow as hell. a 60% overclock is meaningless if the CPU still sucks when you boost it that much. That's also why those early cacheless Celery's didn't make the cut either. They clocked like mad but sucked anyway.
Skimmed through all these comments so far and no one mentioned the actual best one, in terms of OC percentage potential.
The E4300 was 1.8Ghz stock and would go up to 3.6-4Ghz on air. Thats over a 100% overclock. That should be number 1 as far as I can recall.
i7 920 from 2.6 to 4.4, and E8400 3Ghz to 4.8Ghz were pretty good too.
I also would have looked at the Duron 600 (pencil's have never been more useful then the Socket A day's), XP-M 2500+ Barton's, and some of the DX2's. Some gems in those guys.
I don't know why you only gave an Honorable Mention to the Celeron 533A.
I also would have looked at the Duron 600 (pencil's have never been more useful then the Socket A day's), XP-M 2500+ Barton's, and some of the DX2's. Some gems in those guys.
So this is about absolute performance without price to performance ratio. Ok I get it.
The problem with Conroe and Wolfdale is that there were TOO MANY processors to choose from. I was actually surprised at them specifically choosing the Q6600.
Most definately the xp-m 2500+. I managed to get mine up to 2.6 on a nf7s 2.0, using an slk900 and a vantec tornado. Hella good value
I loved my XP mobile Barton 2400+ 35w. On my DFI Lanparty board I had it up to 2.4Ghz although when it died I had to go back to my Asus A7n8x-Dlx which was only able to do 2.3Ghz.
Skimmed through all these comments so far and no one mentioned the actual best one, in terms of OC percentage potential.
The E4300 was 1.8Ghz stock and would go up to 3.6-4Ghz on air. Thats over a 100% overclock. That should be number 1 as far as I can recall.
i7 920 from 2.6 to 4.4, and E8400 3Ghz to 4.8Ghz were pretty good too.
I had wanted a dual CPU system for years prior and the Celeron 300 and BP6 mobo finally made it a reality. It was stable for many years at 450 running Windows NT 4, Windows 98, and BEOS. I upgraded to Celeron 533 CPUs for the BP6 in 2000 and had them cranked to 880something. I snatched up two VP6 motherboards when they came out due to the good fortune I'd had with the BP6 (and BH6, etc) and both of those were pieces of shit.
This area of tech feels more exciting to me than anything has since Athlon 64. Now if I could only pull the trigger on my Newegg cart full of Threadripper build parts.
Had literally the exact same setup and same clocks.
Lasted me til i stepped up to a e6600. Man. Fucking great mobo as well. Rip soundstorm. :/
Surprised nobody mentioned the P3 700Mhz Coppermine. It seemed every was using those to the point that they were tracked down to ID numbers to know idf you were getting a good one.
That's a beefy overclock.
Yea. Definitely was impressive for a Prescott Celeron.
I had a lot of success getting the slowest CPU’s with the highest revision when I was into the overclocking scene.