I was reading a article on the AMD forum and it mention the infamous "pencil method" for unlocking CPU's and that reminded me of one of my best overclockes of all time:
The system was a Abit MOBD, can't remember witch one a Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2GHz stock clock 400MHz FSB and a 5.5 Multiplier.
Now on my chip you could unlock the multiplier but you had to tie a wire on one pin and carefully run it through all the other pins to one near the middle of the chip, if the wire ever moved and touched one of the other pins that it ran past, well it would certainly kill the CPU if not the MOBD too, so i opted for the next best option to use a pencil to create a small electrical bridged between 2 copper dots on top of the CPU, it was labeled L3 i think.
Once this was done my 400MHz FSB was unlocked and I was able to push the FPS up to a screaming 525MHz for a effective clock of 2,887MHz or 2.89GHz, coupled with a thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 running at 100% all times was a wicked over clock and 100% stable, i paired that with a 9800 Pro that I clocked to near XT speeds on core and mem and had a 120mm case fan blowing directly on the GPU also at 100% at all times (that computer sounded like a vacuum cleaner), I could run Doom 3 at high detail (my GFX card defaulted to medium) with no major hangs or stutters, that was big back then in 2004-2005, unfortunately in 2007 I sold that computer to one of my friends who only had a 2 GHz P4 celeron at the time and my PC look like a monster in comparison, unfortunately he brought it to some IT guy who turned off the crazy overclock and lost all my setting (I had everything back up on a piece of paper I taped to the inside of the case and he threw that out too ) the PC still exists today and is used for minecraft.... and after that experience I probably wont be selling my PC's that overclock so well ever again, I also recycled my CRT monitors around that time I sold the PC and i really kick my self in the ass for that one as they were good screens and I could still probably use them today... I miss my true blacks everything looks so washed out on LCDs...
Anyway lets here your amazing overclocking stories of the past!!
Edit: sry the multiplier was 11 because the mem actually ran at 200MHz x2 for DDR transfer rate = 400MHz FSB
The system was a Abit MOBD, can't remember witch one a Athlon XP 3200+ 2.2GHz stock clock 400MHz FSB and a 5.5 Multiplier.
Now on my chip you could unlock the multiplier but you had to tie a wire on one pin and carefully run it through all the other pins to one near the middle of the chip, if the wire ever moved and touched one of the other pins that it ran past, well it would certainly kill the CPU if not the MOBD too, so i opted for the next best option to use a pencil to create a small electrical bridged between 2 copper dots on top of the CPU, it was labeled L3 i think.
Once this was done my 400MHz FSB was unlocked and I was able to push the FPS up to a screaming 525MHz for a effective clock of 2,887MHz or 2.89GHz, coupled with a thermaltake Extreme Volcano 12 running at 100% all times was a wicked over clock and 100% stable, i paired that with a 9800 Pro that I clocked to near XT speeds on core and mem and had a 120mm case fan blowing directly on the GPU also at 100% at all times (that computer sounded like a vacuum cleaner), I could run Doom 3 at high detail (my GFX card defaulted to medium) with no major hangs or stutters, that was big back then in 2004-2005, unfortunately in 2007 I sold that computer to one of my friends who only had a 2 GHz P4 celeron at the time and my PC look like a monster in comparison, unfortunately he brought it to some IT guy who turned off the crazy overclock and lost all my setting (I had everything back up on a piece of paper I taped to the inside of the case and he threw that out too ) the PC still exists today and is used for minecraft.... and after that experience I probably wont be selling my PC's that overclock so well ever again, I also recycled my CRT monitors around that time I sold the PC and i really kick my self in the ass for that one as they were good screens and I could still probably use them today... I miss my true blacks everything looks so washed out on LCDs...
Anyway lets here your amazing overclocking stories of the past!!
Edit: sry the multiplier was 11 because the mem actually ran at 200MHz x2 for DDR transfer rate = 400MHz FSB
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