How old are you in PC overclocking?

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snickersnackz@reddit

First attempt was overlooking my socket 5 pentium 100 on a 430fx chipset motherboard as a teenager in the 90's. It unfortunately refused to post at any setting above spec. ☹️

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mikeputerbaugh@reddit

Burned out a 486SX by setting the clock jumpers too high on the Packard Bell motherboard, no CPU heatsink just raw dogging it

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MarcusAurelius68@reddit

Between jumpering CPU clocks and RLLing a MFM drive there were a lot of “free” upgrades possible.

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soundfeel@reddit

Uh. Good to hear I wasn't the only one!

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FunAccountant4482@reddit

Did the pencil trick with some older powermac G4 computers. After that software make it pretty easy and bigger coolers

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JJDoes1tAll@reddit

Lead conducts electricity. You 'draw' with your pencil between two contacts, thus raising bus speed, or changing the multiplier, to get a faster clock rate.

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thepfy1@reddit

Swapped the crystal on motherboard to go f4om sx25 to 33

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WorldClassAwesome@reddit

I painted a lot of Athlons with windshield defroster repair ink back in the day

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khInstability@reddit

My first attempt at overclocking was an already shitty Cyrix 6x86. Played about 30 seconds of Quake. Then it fried. Also, my last attempt at overclocking.

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Ynoxz@reddit

I was around for the pencil trick on Athlon socket As and Celeron 300a. Vaguely remember people soldering slot A Athlons too.

I ran a P3 500 at 560mhz on a Supermicro motherboard for years (manufacturer mode 3 was an undocumented option for 112mhz FSB). Was rock solid. Also had an AMD Sempron a few years later which ran with a 400Mhz (25%) overclock fairly reliably for a couple of years.

PC cases with a shit ton of fans in them which sounded like vacuum cleaners when running. Making my own bay bus so I could quieten things down a bit.

Did enough graphics card overclocking back in the day too with the old nVidia reference drivers.

Was a fun time to be messing around with this kind of kit. These days I just run a MacBook Air.

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ultrahkr@reddit

Old Pentium @ 75Mhz or (90?) OC'd to 120Mhz...

Later on a Pentium D 945 from 3Ghz to 5Ghz on air...

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bloodem@reddit

I first overclocked my AMD 5x86 P75 133MHz to 160 MHz. This was back in 1996.

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schluesselkind@reddit

Changing the clock from 8Mhz to 10, 12 or even 16Mhz by changing the crystal (and sometimes cpu)

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_Erin_@reddit

The first computer I ever attempted to overclock was my Mac II in the early 90's. I thought all I needed to do was to replace the 16Mhz crystal with a 20Mhz one and I'd be done. Mac II didn't like it at all!

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eulynn34@reddit

Those were the days

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elvelazco@reddit

Amiga 68000 to 68010, Celeron 300A @450 mhz with Soyo mobo and Computer Nerd cooler old...

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ordep_caetano@reddit

Yes

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sneekeruk@reddit

Soldering a 40mhz crystal on my 28mhz 68030 on my Amiga. If I disabled the MMU on the chip, it would even run at 46mhz. Not bad for a chip labelled 20mhz, as they came pre-overclocked.

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UnrulyCactus@reddit

I can still remember flipping the dip switches on my old HP 486SX2 to increase the FSB. Good times.

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ellicottvilleny@reddit

I'm NEC V20 old.

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TechCF@reddit

Did bios mod and oscillator 486/pentium era. Erased pencil marks and traded / returned / switched durons during school lunch looking for a golden duron (700 @ 933 was the highest i got)

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Scoth42@reddit

Soldering in a different clock crystal to overclock a 286 or 68k Mac. Fun times all around.

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AppropriateCap8891@reddit

A buddy and I did that on XT class systems in the day.

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Terrible-Bear3883@reddit

Did it myself, worked a treat, I think the processor is still in my old gaming rig with it's massive 2GB of OCZ RAM that cost me a lot of money (and my Geforce Ultra that cost far too much).