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Angelus897

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I have an old pc that I built for DOS gaming and today I was a little bored. It has a 766MHz Celeron along with an ATI Xpert 128 (16mb), and 768mb of ram, along with good old Win98SE. Here's what I ended up with:

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Went from 766 to 958MHz. Super PI 1M dropped from 3m53s to 3m22s, and it definately feels a bit faster. I couldn't go any higher because the BIOS wouldn't allow. Anyone else have pics/data of overclocking older hardware?
 
Nicely done. :D
I used to OC my 1.2GHz Athlon to 1.4 in Win98 and thought that was some hot stuff.
These days, I only use old-school rigs for playing old-school games like Eye of the Beholder, X-Com, etc... Those games actually don't play too well on modern CPUs (I have some games that don't play at all on anything faster than 1GHz), so I deliberately keep them at stock speeds.
 
Those old Celys are kind of castrated. Maybe you can find a $10 EBay P3 so you can crank out those SuperPi digits faster! :D
I broke the 2 minute barrier, WooHOO!!!!

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I've lost count of how many desktop computers I've gone through while my old Dell laptop keeps chugging along.
I wish the new ones were built as well as this old thing.
 
Servant of Shodan said:
Nicely done. :D
I used to OC my 1.2GHz Athlon to 1.4 in Win98 and thought that was some hot stuff.
These days, I only use old-school rigs for playing old-school games like Eye of the Beholder, X-Com, etc... Those games actually don't play too well on modern CPUs (I have some games that don't play at all on anything faster than 1GHz), so I deliberately keep them at stock speeds.
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X-Com FTW! I'm playing System Shock 2, Diablo, and Settlers II right now. Who needs R600?

unclewebb said:
Those old Celys are kind of castrated. Maybe you can find a $10 EBay P3 so you can crank out those SuperPi digits faster! :D
I broke the 2 minute barrier, WooHOO!!!!

I've lost count of how many desktop computers I've gone through while my old Dell laptop keeps chugging along.
I wish the new ones were built as well as this old thing.
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The Celerons are castrated, but the 566MHz and 600MHz were some of the best overclockers of their days (in fact most Celerons oc very well). But I just picked up a P3 800MHz off a forum member here. I love P3s, still my favorite CPUs. Plus, the Core 2 Duos owe a lot to them (well I suppose they owe a lot to the Pentium Pro as well).

PS: I have a Dell laptop with a Core Duo in it, and I haven't had any problems. Still, you're right about the build quality not being where it once was (but I suppose that's true for most things these days).
 
Evoic said:
Pentium Pro is the best CPU Intel ever built in my opinion. :D
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Without it, we wouldn't have the Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium M, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, so I'm not going to disagree with you.

PS: Anyone have a Pentium Pro system for sale? lol
 
Angelus897 said:
Without it, we wouldn't have the Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium M, Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, so I'm not going to disagree with you.

PS: Anyone have a Pentium Pro system for sale? lol
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Not for sale, but I think I've still got one lying around to play with. Wonder if I can overclock it. o_o Maybe run it without a heatsink and see how long it lasts...or use it to test an unmarked TEC I've got.

After I'm done playing with it I might be willing to sell. ^_^ Either way if I get it to overclock I'll post pics.
 
unclewebb said:
Those old Celys are kind of castrated. Maybe you can find a $10 EBay P3 so you can crank out those SuperPi digits faster! :D
I broke the 2 minute barrier, WooHOO!!!!
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BTW, what northbridge/southbridge is that?

MjrStryker said:
Not for sale, but I think I've still got one lying around to play with. Wonder if I can overclock it. o_o Maybe run it without a heatsink and see how long it lasts...or use it to test an unmarked TEC I've got.

After I'm done playing with it I might be willing to sell. ^_^ Either way if I get it to overclock I'll post pics.
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Boo! Don't break it. That's history, rofl.:D

PS: Dibs. I call dibs on the mobo/cpu if it still works after you're done.
 
playing the original HL with all the lights off and sound up a bit was scary. those headcrabs coming out of the ceiling in some spots...holy shit..lol

i miss the P3 i had. coppermine slot 1 733. and before that i had a 500 slot A athlon. good old days lol i had an asus board for the P3...i could only get it up to around 800Mhz at the time.
 
What I'd like to see is a Celeron 300A @ 450 on a BX board. That's the platform that really kicked off "mainstream" overclocking, a setup like that should be put in a museum :p
 
Xeth said:
What I'd like to see is a Celeron 300A @ 450 on a BX board. That's the platform that really kicked off "mainstream" overclocking, a setup like that should be put in a museum :p
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Right, you're talking about the Celeron Mendocino. I'll have to pick one up sooner or later. Intel made it too good, and even canabalized PII sales.
 
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