Do you remember your first oc?

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DO you remember your first oc? do you remember the first time you pushed it to far? Do you remember the first time you got a "really good" oc and how fast it felt?

My first oc was a k6-2 350 oc'd to 450mhz, but it didn't seem much faster. After i fryed my old crappy k6mb i got an abit be6 (bx chipset slot 1) and oc'd a celeron 333 to a pretty fast at the time 425mhz, not the 500 other people were getting, but not bad. I remember half-life seemed to run smoother, and so did q3a demo.
 
lol no way...my first overclock was that exact same chip...got to 412mhz with it stock volts (didn't no to raise the voltage lol)
 
Mine was a p120 overclocked to 133. I couldn't get it to run any higher. :-/
 
P-100 to 120.....I didnt even know I was OCing...I just new my videos ran better :)

First burn....celeron 300a @896 (ducted A/C setup, me and my friends got bored on day...), hooray for having a good board...the CPU still ran, but was not OCable anymore :(
 
I lost my cherry in 1998 to a PII 350. Pumped that bad girl up to a massive 409.5 (117x3.5). 5.6 GB HDD, 128 mb PC100, 36X CD. Felt so good to lose my virginity:D Now I'm an o/c'g slut:cool:
 
my first OC is 2.6c overclocked to 2.9 (which im stuck at) ya thats weak im sorry ill leave this thread....
 
a 486DX to a whopping 40 MHZ !
I had to put a heat sink/fan combo on it, unheard of at the time :D
now those were the days (not)
 
my first oc was an athlon 900 to 1.1ghz, that was back in early 2000.
 
My very first OC was a K6-2 333, which I got to a staggering FIVE HUNDRED mhz! OMGZ! And no, I'm not kidding AT ALL, I was astonished :D

Then from there I got a celeron 333 to 550 mhz(or maybe it was 566?)

Then, I got an athlon 1ghz to 1.5ghz(my first watercooling setup).

And now currently, my most dissapointing overclock of all :( A barton 2500+ at 3200+([email protected])
 
My first oc was on a fic-AZ11, with a duron 750, also my first self built computer, up from my intel 486dx, ahh those were the days. Well I got it up to 850 ish, but that board sucked, I later got it a little past one gigahertz...later:)
 
Mine isn't quiet as old as yours, and keep in mind, I was still a major computer newbie at the time, i prolly shouldn't have been doing it but I got my 900mhz Tbird to 990mhz. I bet I could have gotten it higher but I ran the memory at 133mhz so it was been pushed to 143mhz at which it wouldn't go any further. Stock cooling on the system, 1 intake fan, thats it. I still have the system. I may go for it again at some time. See if I can get 1.2ghz :)
 
good ol' p166 to 200.... jesus. that was 8 or 9 years ago...
proceeding through the pIII 500 to 517 :D (gotta love dell mobos)
then on to an athlon 1g that would only do 1.2
to a 1700+ that does 2000+ to this day
and on the the current rig in the sig, by far the most satisfying
 
p120 running at 133... accidentally (made linux crash) because a jumper was set wrong:eek:

then i played with a amd k6-2 475mhz, tried to get it to run at somewhere near 475mhz (came clocked at 366, but it is a 475 chip, i still have it somewhere) but pretty much killed the computer by running 512mb ram, a voodoo banshee, 2 hard drives, and a lan card off of a crappy 150 watt psu. god that sucked.

most of my oc's have been video card oc's, as i tend to get crappy chips. my current 2100 palomino can hit 2ghz using clockgen but crashes immediately due to lack of volts (only 1.85 +- .07 volts) and my crappy psu (as evidenced by vcore fluctuation)

i did get a gf2mx (hercules) to 240mhz core by putting a fan on the stock heatsink. that was a fun card:)
 
My first was a 3Dfx Voodoo 1 (Monster 3D) I have no idea how fast I got it, I wasn't really serious about it at the time.

My first good OC was a Celeron 300A --> 450 MHz, followed shortly by a Celeron 366 --> 550 MHz. The rest is a sordid history of late nights and never being truly satisfied. Boy we're a sad lot. ;)
 
Bunch on newbies. :)

I had to stop lurking just to post to this thread.....


My first overclock was a TRS80 Color computer back in 1981
6809 @ .875 Mhz, with good ram, change a registry setting & run at 1.75 Mhz. Scrambled the display at that speed, but long calculations ran 2x, and you just needed to slow it back down when you needed to read the screen.

My first PC overclock was an IBM AT 6 Mhz, over clocked to 7.2 Mhz, and then, with a hand picked 286, to 9 Mhz. Had the fastest system in the office. Hardest part was finding the correct crystal to swap out :)

As for the rest.....

386/25 @ 33 Mhz
486/33 @ 40 Mhz
486/50DX2 @ 66 Mhz
Pentium 90 @ 120 Mhz
Cyrix 133 @ 133 Mhz :(
AMD K6/2 333 @ 366 Mhz
Celeron 300a @ 454 Mhz
Athlon 700 @ 900 Mhz
Athlon 750 @ 998 Mhz
P4 1.6a @ 2 Ghz

Overclocking - It's not a job, it's a way of life.
 
My first oc was a pci TNT card 16mb, that went from 90mhz(I think) to 107mhz. Then the following month, I bought a 300a for $200 and oc'ed it to 475mhz.

Remember the sandwich coolers!
 
going strictly off of memory.. i think i managed ~1.55 (10.5x147) on a k7s5a and 1600+ palomino (now my keychain) with a hacked bios.
 
Originally posted by nutzo
Bunch on newbies. :)

I had to stop lurking just to post to this thread.....


My first overclock was a TRS80 Color computer back in 1981
6809 @ .875 Mhz, with good ram, change a registry setting & run at 1.75 Mhz. Scrambled the display at that speed, but long calculations ran 2x, and you just needed to slow it back down when you needed to read the screen.

My first PC overclock was an IBM AT 6 Mhz, over clocked to 7.2 Mhz, and then, with a hand picked 286, to 9 Mhz. Had the fastest system in the office. Hardest part was finding the correct crystal to swap out :)

As for the rest.....

386/25 @ 33 Mhz
486/33 @ 40 Mhz
486/50DX2 @ 66 Mhz
Pentium 90 @ 120 Mhz
Cyrix 133 @ 133 Mhz :(
AMD K6/2 333 @ 366 Mhz
Celeron 300a @ 454 Mhz
Athlon 700 @ 900 Mhz
Athlon 750 @ 998 Mhz
P4 1.6a @ 2 Ghz

Overclocking - It's not a job, it's a way of life.
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welcome to the boards! I was like 12 - 14 at the time, and i started reading my motherboard manuals and wondered what it would be like to raise my FSB so i tried it and i got my 500 celeron up to like... 550mhz, but it crapped out cause my memory sucked. I quit trying to o/c then cause i was scared. I started reading the forums about a year or two ago, just about when i bought my P4 1.8, got that baby to 2.4, switched my friend who also had a 1.8 (he doesn't oc) and got it up to a nice 2.7. No PCI/AGP lock. Passed that sucker on to my dad and now i'm at my 2500+ @ 2500mhz (sig hasn't been updated, and am still looking for the ceiling for my chip). :D
 
First time was with my barton 2500. I bumped the fsb up to 167mhz (just to test it out) and i think the cpu ran at 1.85 GHZ. Wahoo!!!
 
I remember I got my 6MHz 80286 going at 10MHz, but that was with the aid of the turbo button. Of course, there was no noticeable difference, but all that I did anyway was play Astro Grover off of 5 1/4" floppies, and learn GWBASIC. Oh, and DOOM shareware, after a ram, processor, and hard drive upgrade.
 
i got into pc's pretty late (about 7 years ago) since where i come from they were pretty expensive to purchase
first pc i never oc'ed, 2nd pc i never oc'ed. however, on the 2nd pc i oc'ed my vid card (voodoo3 3000), killed that caus i pushed it too far, and the fan flopped :( resold it at $75 even after it was dead rofl

anywho, pc3 i still have, a p3 1ghz, not a good overclocker, barely raised the fsb and began to act whacko.

pc4 was a 1700+ tbred b chip, got that to 2.1 ghz on an a7n8x-dx rev. 1.04 (10.5x200). this pc has been sold.

pc5 is my current rig, in sig. waiting on a zalman hsf before i oc this thing, im expecting at least 3.2ghz out of it, and ill be plenty happy :)
 
I've had my own pc's since I was 6 years old (i'm 23 now), and at first I was scared to OC, so I'm a little behind you guys. My first OC was a SLOT A Athlon 700mhz@900mhz with a GFD and that bigass alpha w/2 deltas on it that was out in those days. This was on done on a Abit KA7-100 with the "beta" bios that turned the ATA100 controller into a Raid controller.

Needless to say, I've been hooked since.
 
My first was a Celeron 333, dont remember what I got it up to. second was a Athlon Slot A 650 @ 900 with a GFD and a modded Alpha directly on the core.
 
my first was a p3 450 slot1 on a be6 with the alpha cooler and dual ys tech loud fans, mushkin ultra memory (was the most expensive part at the time) got it to 667. @ that time online stores were selling tested chips.
 
My first OC was actually to the Geforce2 in my Gateway computer. My first real OC, however, was upping a 1.3ghz tbird up to 1.6, on air. That this ran HOT, but very fast for the time. ;)
 
Slot 1 PIII 550E @ 852 on an MSI BX Master
Still happily chugging away at 733 at my sisters place.
 
thanks for all the great replies, thats some crazy shit ocing a trs-80 i used to program cheeseball games into one in school.
 
a 486 dx250 oc to 66 by changin the bus jumper to 33. it was huge improvement compare to today:D
 
Well it was either overclocking my Pentium 90 to 100 (at a time when a Pentium 100 cost about $150-$200 MORE than the Pentium 90) or my AMD DX4-100 to 160. I was never able to get my 90 to run at 120 (it would post) and that always upset me. If only I had thought of upping the voltage then!

I spent a lot of time trying to overclock my Cyrix 20MHz to anything else and I even tried changing the clock crystal but that POS wouldn't do anything more so I guess that doesn't count as it wasn't successful.
 
I oc'd my p75 to a p100, that was a huge difference.

50 mhz bus to 66.

That's when a new 100 mhz was about $250.

Didn't know what i was doing other than changing the bus speed jumpers.

If i knew then what i know now.
 
XT changed the clock gen... got a whopping 2 mhz more out of it. then no ocing untill 486 stuff... learned to lap a cpu with diamond sand paper. then came the pents. amd early failuers. the 586-133 was fun but the fpu sucked.

the rule at the shack is,,,,, if it wont oc its used to line a trash can.

psy :)
 
I just did my first overclock like 5 minutes ago, it was such a rush, pushing it and pushing it further, to the limits.

System in my sig

I chickened out at 3.12 cause i'm stock cooling, just made sure it was stable and took it back down a bit. Such a rush.

Gained soo much knowledge since becoming a member of this forum, thanks guys
 
486 DX4 100 @ 120Mhz!
Just changed the FSB from 33 to 40 Mhz.
Who can remember MEMCLK for Vid Cards? Got my S3 up from 50 Mhz to 80+ Mhz with it and my old 486 HSF! (Had a P1 HSF + HSG on the CPU)

Other improvements included putting an extra 1 MB of RAM on that Vid Card (The Chip was 50% crippled without it) and swapping out the 64Kb L2 cache with 256 KB L2 cache from fxrd P1 boards.

Later got an AMD 5X85 CPU (486 @ 33X4 std) and ran it at 40X4 for 160 Mhz on a 486! this machine made all my rich friends P1 100's look slow, (due to the Vid card mods and RAM opts in the BIOS) And them green with envy. Also made them feel a bit stooped after spending so much while I got better performance with their old hand me downs for free!

;)
 
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