The Joys of Computer Tinkering...

[Bluescreendeath]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclocking-amd,208.html

This was way before my time.


and 1.85v...wow

 

[jimmysmitty]

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclocking-amd,208.html

Makes a pencil mod a dream.

Once I took a laptop with a AMD K6-II in it. Filpped some switches on the mobo and it went from 266MHz to 400MHz. Drained the battery so fast I had to keep it plugged into the wall.

 

[randomizer]

This was way before my time.


and 1.85v...wow

Go back to the original Pentiums and you're looking at 3V :lol:

Makes a pencil mod a dream.

Once I took a laptop with a AMD K6-II in it. Filpped some switches on the mobo and it went from 266MHz to 400MHz. Drained the battery so fast I had to keep it plugged into the wall.

Ah DIP switches. The good old days of overclocking where it wasn't a simple BIOS setting.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

lol.

What were the chips that required you to bend the pins in order to overclock or be compatible with another socket? Were those AMDs or Intel?

 

[sminlal]

Go back to the original Pentiums and you're looking at 3V :lol:

The 8088 used in the original IBM PC used 5V, and it's predecessor, the 8080 (used in computers such as the Altair) used +5V, -5V and 12V.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

^ Does 12v = 12v rail?

 

[amdfangirl]

The 8088 used in the original IBM PC used 5V, and it's predecessor, the 8080 (used in computers such as the Altair) used +5V, -5V and 12V.

Well as our chips get smaller so do the voltages... and pineapples.

 

[jimmysmitty]

lol.

What were the chips that required you to bend the pins in order to overclock or be compatible with another socket? Were those AMDs or Intel?

They wouldn't be recent Intel but a lot of the CPUs had pin/pencil mods. Hell that one random posted was back before AMD discovered a IHS and let the CPU hang high and dry for dust and such.

I know some CPUs that people had would lose a pin and still work and some would change the flow of the voltage thus increasing the FSB and OCing it. The Q6600 has a tape mod to set it to a always 333MHz FSB.

 

[sminlal]

^ Does 12v = 12v rail?

Yep, in those days it did. But despite the (relatively) higher voltages, those old systems didn't use all that much power. The power supply in the original IBM PC was less than 65 watts.

 

[randomizer]

High voltage means lower current, and since the actual power consumption was lower than today the current was lower still. These days the current supplied to a modern CPU is huge. I wish they could sustain 240V so I could run them with almost no current when connected to a wall socket

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Well as our chips get smaller so do the voltages... and pineapples.

Aren't fruits getting bigger? The average pineapple in the supermarket is bigger than our heads nowadays...

 

[jimmysmitty]

Aren't fruits getting bigger? The average pineapple in the supermarket is bigger than our heads nowadays...

Yea the not so good ones. I saw a Papaya that was 2-3 times the normal size. Tasted like crap compared to the natural ones you can get in Hawaii.

 

[Mousemonkey]

They wouldn't be recent Intel but a lot of the CPUs had pin/pencil mods. Hell that one random posted was back before AMD discovered a IHS and let the CPU hang high and dry for dust and such.

I know some CPUs that people had would lose a pin and still work and some would change the flow of the voltage thus increasing the FSB and OCing it. The Q6600 has a tape mod to set it to a always 333MHz FSB.

Slot A had an IHS, sort of.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Has anyone OCed an End-of-Life rig to the point where the hardware components break down?

 

[amdfangirl]

Pick me.

 

[warmon6]

Has anyone OCed an End-of-Life rig to the point where the hardware components break down?

i probably will once i have the money to build a new computer..... (thats if caps on my motherboard survive that long. )

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Pick me.

Pikachu I choose you!

Deep fried AMD cpus I presume?

 

[amdfangirl]

Yes, let us never speak of this again.

 

[ElMoIsEviL]

Actually, that's gonna be my Gulftown | GTX 3XX rig next year.

GTX 3XX?

Hehehe... something tells me you'll be waiting a long time (perhaps sometime in March maybe later).

 

[amdfangirl]

GTX 3xx or 2xx same thing

 

[Bloodblender]

I don't get that much experience with high-end stuff, hell, the best I've seen on-hand is a GTS 250 and HD 4980 + Core 2 Quad.

Having said that, I basically CRAVE for higher end tinkering, because most of the stuff I do are all old Pentium 4's and the occasional 65nm Core 2 Duo with some cheap but still fun HD 3450 graphics.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Now I have another question for AMD users: Do you enjoy overclocking more or unlocking cores (if successful) more?

 

[warmon6]

Now I have another question for AMD users: Do you enjoy overclocking more or unlocking cores (if successful) more?

hmm... that is a good question.

 

[yannifb]

Now I have another question for AMD users: Do you enjoy overclocking more or unlocking cores (if successful) more?

Unlocking cores if im building a PC for someone else, because that way they are extra pleased and i get more money

 

[amdfangirl]

Why not both?