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Ah I remember. Had a 300a with dual peltiers on it, guaranteed to get 450 ran it at 504 Even had a boot screen with that number on it.
Shut up. I actually bought a PII 333 and PII 400 not very long before the slot Cellys were releasedCeleron 300A was the way to go. Much better choice than the $800+ Pentium II 300.
Pffft.... please. Some of us still have working 2x 300A + ABIT BP6 combos.That chip got me reading [H]ardOCP in the first place.
I can't believe you STILL have one....and the MB and memory to power one up.
Ah ha drooling over a celery 300a, the good old slot 1 days.
I remember stepping up to an a bit bp6 with dual celeron 333a's @ 500mhz. That was when over clocking and case modding went hand-in-hand. No stupid prefab windows and dual 120 mm in the front and top of your full tower case was sweet, and no case came that way.
The amount of customers we used to get come in to the shop back then wanting to learn how to overclock these bad boys (back then they were!) was unbelievable! Those were the good old days of enthusiasts where there was no ego's, plug & pray was in its infancy and some boards still required dip switches or jumpers to be set up correctly (I wonder how many of today's young "guns" could set up those systems?).
450MHz was simple. with 504MHz being most people's upper limit.
I had a celeron 533 that i could get to 1ghz and be stable...sad thing is, it didnt make those sucky celerons any better
...I have no desire to mod cases. I love looking at others mods, but to me case modding (and to some degree the current state of OCing) is more like being a car enthusiast. It's not something that interests me.
All I want is a nice quiet low key case. Back then any beige case would do...today black or charcoal grey.
You and I have similar tastes in cases. Simple, industrial, and functional while looking professional. The Antec 300 has been God's gift in case design for me. It's been my go-to case for years and years because of it's simplicity and elegance.
The amount of customers we used to get come in to the shop back then wanting to learn how to overclock these bad boys (back then they were!) was unbelievable! Those were the good old days of enthusiasts where there was no ego's, plug & pray was in its infancy and some boards still required dip switches or jumpers to be set up correctly (I wonder how many of today's young "guns" could set up those systems?).
450MHz was simple. with 504MHz being most people's upper limit.
It was definitely a different world then. I would say both harder and easier. Today it's rather simple to just flip a multiplier and off you go. Back with my first OC (pII 333) I used electrical tape and counted pins to find the one to cover for insta-OC (pin B21 IIRC?) on boards that weren't OC friendly. I wonder how many today would put up with the noise levels we did for those clocks? Dual 40mm Delta's, a bunch of screaming 80mm's, my machines sounded like jets winding up for takeoff and never left the ground. MUCH prefer the quiet of today's setups.
I'm pretty sure I have permanent hearing damage from the delta fan that I had on my 366@616mhz.
I don't disagree, but this thread is five years old. I wonder if this 300A is still with usI remember whn my K6-2 300 wouldn't budge past 300. Seeing these kinds of speeds on the 300A just makes me feel warm inside.
Depends. I have to verify it's still functional.DogsofJune you sellin anything?