Anyone remember overclocking using jumpers?

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Albanu1800

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How many of you out there used to use jumpers to set yr board up but to overclock?

It wasn't only bad enough that we had to set all the system settings using jumpers but the manual used to tell me to strictly set it to what it suggested or my system will be unstable.


Anyone out there have similar experiences?
 
i remember using them. i recall how much i loved my abit be6 b/c i finally could oc via "SOFTMENU". lol.
 
I remember when I OC'd by TWO jumpers. 1-2 1-2 20, 1-2 2-3 25, 2-3 1-2 33.
Even more depressingly, I remember when I OC'd by replacing clock crystals.
 
I remember overclocking my amd k6-2 266mhz to 350mhz. Then a few days later I wake up to find the cpu fan died, and when i went to remove the heat sink I burnt the heat sink fin pattern into my finger tips. Ahh the good old days of over clocking with jumpers.
 
AreEss said:
I remember when I OC'd by TWO jumpers. 1-2 1-2 20, 1-2 2-3 25, 2-3 1-2 33.
Even more depressingly, I remember when I OC'd by replacing clock crystals.
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2/3/486 days. Replacing crystals was the only way to do it. I remember soldering two new crystals on a Magitronic motherboard to take my 386 from 20 to 33Mhz. Ahhhh the good old days!
 
The first OC I did was on a Sony VAIO Pentium 166. Sony listed the just settings on the side of the power supply and I just increased the multiplier settings for 200MHz :D

Also neat, that Sony was using standard ATX long before a lot of other companies did. One of my friends is still using the case and power supply with a Athlon.
 
How many people lost a jumper in the bottom of their case only to replace it from one of your hard drives?

Please do not lose a jumper! Not that they used to sell them in the computer stores too.
 
HydroBudz said:
2/3/486 days. Replacing crystals was the only way to do it. I remember soldering two new crystals on a Magitronic motherboard to take my 386 from 20 to 33Mhz. Ahhhh the good old days!
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aye now we talking ;) Original IBM PC OCed from 4.77MHz (yes thats MHz) to 5.??, cant remember, by swapping crystal at 6:30 pm so the Boss didn't catch us engineers screwing around with his secretaries shiny brand new toy. Poor woman actually shaking with fear and almost to tears when they took her IBM Selectric typewriter away and plopped the machine down on her desk, she was scared to death she would "break" the expensive computer. Funny now but the woman was actually terrified.
 
BillParrish said:
aye now we talking ;) Original IBM PC OCed from 4.77MHz (yes thats MHz) to 5.??, cant remember, by swapping crystal at 6:30 pm so the Boss didn't catch us engineers screwing around with his secretaries shiny brand new toy. Poor woman actually shaking with fear and almost to tears when they took her IBM Selectric typewriter away and plopped the machine down on her desk, she was scared to death she would "break" the expensive computer. Funny now but the woman was actually terrified.
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whoa. the closest I've ever been to old school overclocking is pressing the turbo button on the case. Actually, I still don't even know what the heck that did.
 
AMD K6/2 400 @ 550 speeds. Got a little warm, but I hot glued a fan onto the heatsink. Unheard of back then.
 
Just recently sold off a Gigabyte NF2 board that had dip switches (and jumpers) for OCing. Even more recently, my Aopen Core2Duo mobile CPU desktop board had jumpers for FSB settings.
 
skadebo said:
whoa. the closest I've ever been to old school overclocking is pressing the turbo button on the case. Actually, I still don't even know what the heck that did.
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older software was programmed useing cpu cycles as a time measureing device to help syncronise data movement, the cpus got to be to fast, and it would throw off the timeing and cause errors, so the turbo button was acctually more of an under clock than an over clock, haveing it on ment that it was running at normal speed, but turning it off was more like a compatablility mode
 
skadebo said:
whoa. the closest I've ever been to old school overclocking is pressing the turbo button on the case. Actually, I still don't even know what the heck that did.
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I was just going to mention the turbo Button, until i kept reading. Wasn't the it pretty much a button for a jumper?

I remember frying a "super socket 7" cpu, an older K6, and bringing home a regular socket 7 CPU Pentium 1 ( with MMX :) ) and it worked with the socket to my suprise! Later I got another k6 for it and before throwing away that computer i took the k6 out and brought it to school (thinking i could have a faster computer then the other kids in the class) and put it in a regular socket 7 and found the CPU did not like that and instantly fried and made this HORRIBLE smell. My nose to this day still burns from the smell...
 
I did a drop-in upgrade on my Amiga 500, with an dual-speed motorola 68000 chip, 14 or 7 MHz. Some games hated the 14MHz so you'd have to downspeed it.

First real overclocking I did was an AMD 300MHz on a socket 7 board... I think it topped out at 366 or 375.

I overclocked an older Dell desktop I got for free for a friend of mine, had a Pentium 90, which I overclocked to 133.

Probably the most fun board to mess around with was the BP6, the dual celeron board. Got two 366s running at 550MHz each, 100MHz sdram. How times have changed, my Q6600 @ 3600MHz is probably 15-20 times faster per core. :)
 
BillParrish said:
aye now we talking ;) Original IBM PC OCed from 4.77MHz (yes thats MHz) to 5.??, cant remember, by swapping crystal at 6:30 pm so the Boss didn't catch us engineers screwing around with his secretaries shiny brand new toy. Poor woman actually shaking with fear and almost to tears when they took her IBM Selectric typewriter away and plopped the machine down on her desk, she was scared to death she would "break" the expensive computer. Funny now but the woman was actually terrified.
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Yup, been there, done that. I used to run a BBS for Grumman on an old IBM 8086. The proc would get fairly warm at times and a quick shot of freeze spray would bring it back to life after crashing. LOL And this was when that 8086 was the most current piece of hardware in the shop! Old Data General washing machine platter drives and reel-to-reel's lined the walls.
 
skadebo said:
whoa. the closest I've ever been to old school overclocking is pressing the turbo button on the case. Actually, I still don't even know what the heck that did.
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HA! I cut out one of those TURBO buttons, and I was going to find a way to make it work as a fan controller. I never got around to that, but it always seemed like fun. Hit TURBO for 12v and off for 7v. :)

My very first computer was a 386 that we (my dad and I) overclocked from 20mhz to 33mhz. We thought we were flying.

Then, we replaced that CPU with a 66mhz chip. I still remember my dad saying, "This is twice as fast. It doesn't get any faster than this." Of course, that was running with 1-megabyte of RAM and we had a 40-megabyte harddrive. We were KINGS! A full MB of ram and a 66mhz CPU. Top of the line.
 
My first OC was a PPro 180 to 200 using FSB. Man. Those were the days. six jumpers to set that shit on my old board. It was about oh, NOT stable, but it worked enough.
 
My first computer that was MINE was a pentium 166mmx. Went with my dad to the computer show downtown and picked it up for the dirt cheap price of $288 (cpu only). I overclocked it to 208mhz using jumpers on my Asus (i think) board. I spent hours and hours reading toms hardware guide trying to find the best motherboard. I then of course bragged to all of my friends that I had a computer faster than you can buy in stores (200mmx was fasted out then). Of course the pentium 2 came out a month later at 233 and 266 mhz and all my friends made fun of me with their new pentium 2s.
 
My first machine was a pentium mmx 166 mhz, with 16 mb ram, and a 1.2 gig drive. ( in india , it was a dream in 1997 to have such a machine ) had to set the multi and the fsb manually, even the v-core was set with jumpers. i think it was a 440 chipset or something, im not clear. but i remember increasing the fsb to 75 from 66 mhz, and getting 212 mhz from 166. :p
 
b34m3r - dude i dint read your post till i replied. but you said the exact same thing that i experienced. here the fastest was 133mmx, and 166 was a dream, and 200 was like are u gonna use it for a server or something! and in a couple of months the prices came down and everyone started buying 233 and 266. my machine was about 2200$ in that time in India
 
My parents bought me a $3700 Quantex system in 1997 for college. It was right when the Pentium II cpus came out.

P2 266Mhz,64mb of EDO ram (soon to be DRAM when the mobo fried), 6.4gb hdd, ensoniq audio pci, Matrox Millenium 4mb, 16x cd-rom + floppy, 17in Mag CRT, Altec Lansing AS400 / 250 speaker system

OC'd to 333 using the jumpers summer 98 =) *sigh* soon I got my ATI Xpert 128 and a very expensive hobby was born.
 
yeah i remember my first oc, amd k6-2 450@550mhz and that was a fast cpu at that time lol.
 
sounds like mine. i took a celeron 333Mhz up to 485 Mhz i think...i know it was over 450 anyhow...all with stock cooling, didnt give a crap how hot it got lol. i had to set a jumper to change the range of FSB adjustments within the bios but that was it...thank god.

then the voodoo3....oh dear. 143Mhz -> 183Mhz. couldn't handle 1Mhz more without going stupid after about 15 minutes lol. somehow those parts survived until my asshole dad thew them out. i wanted to keep that V3 just to overvolt it and send it to hell in style.
 
Wow we are really showing our age.

My last board with a lot of jumpers was the one I gave to my daughter and it still rocks. All Amd was what I was used to and mostly Asus boards.
 
First pc I ever overclocked was by replacing a crystal back in high school. The good days before kids would pimp out their computer with a bunch of flashing fans and leds. Back with there was green yellow and red leds only.
 
I OC'ed my Celly 400 on a BX board with jumpers, never got the FSB much higher than the stock 66Mhz, LOL, then the good old Slot Athlon with the GFD that allowed you to change the multiplier, my board had dip switches but some had jumpers on those too....... The good old days.......or were they..
 
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