Overclocking classics
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Was just talking to @MattSpeller about CPU's and we got a bit off topic into overclocking.
What about you?
- Did you ever use a graphite pencil on a AMD Socket-A Duron?
- Have you ever changed a crystal on a 486 board?
- OC'ed a P III 700 to 1 GHz?
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I knew a guy who had one of these, he was easily the coolest guy in the whole IT class lol
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@MattSpeller said in Overclocking classics:
I knew a guy who had one of these, he was easily the coolest guy in the whole IT class lol
liquid nitrogen cooling?
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@thwr refridgerated phase-change
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@MattSpeller said in Overclocking classics:
@thwr refridgerated phase-change
ah, sure. didn't read, just saw the tank that is actually a compressor
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XT and 286 turbo button. Also awesome.
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I'm pretty sure that I've never overclocked anything.
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@scottalanmiller said in Overclocking classics:
I'm pretty sure that I've never overclocked anything.
Overclocking in the early years was like... maybe like the rush for gold in the US
It was fun to get your 80486 from 33 MHz to 66MHz just by changing the clock source crystal which is just a tiny quartz oscillator that costs $1 or so. Like this one:https://www.reichelt.de/?ARTICLE=13721
The biggest issue was that you had to keep an eye on the busses (ISA, PCI, VLB etc), because they where using the same clock source.
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Yeah I remember that stuff. I was not in the IA16 and IA32 worlds in any significant way until I bought a Pentium 75 and then a P2 350. I was in the M68K world much more.
