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There's really one need that warrants overclocking -- gaming. I realize I need my processor for other things and not fail at it. I can sip coffee awhile longer

There's really one need that warrants overclocking -- gaming. I realize I need my processor for other things and not fail at it. I can sip coffee awhile longer while it finishes the job.

sergers 9y ago
A hobby :) Use to be a frequenter of extremesystems.org 10-15 years ago, in the overclocking and water-cooling threads. Good fun. Now practicality wise, I had no use to OC really. Wasn't even a big gamer at the time. Pure fully fun and just seeing if I could (thought I was the cool kid running water-cooling, overclocked cpu/mem/you, installing every nightly patch in Gentoo portage with a tonne of system specific gcc and kernel flags lol). Now my thousands of dollars water-cooling parts, and a q6600 processor have been sitting in garage for 10 years. Use a standard i7 low-end laptop, no desktops in past 10 years
- flamedoge 9y ago
  I still have q6600 too. was thinking of wiring up again as a home server (or compiler machine like urself?). Also got q8400, A8-3870K, and gaming laptop with i7-6700hq+gtx980m. needless to say, i don't oc laptop at all.
Yetanfou 9y ago
Thousands of (former) Abit BP-6 owners want to have a word with you... remember that one? For those too young to remember, the BP-6 was a dual-socket motherboard which took two Celeron CPUs and allowed all sorts of overclocking trickery. Both the fact that you could run an SMP configuration using Celeron CPU's - something Intel had not foreseen nor intended - as well as the fact that it was possible to get most 300MHz (remember, this is a while ago) Celerons up to 450-466 MHz made it ideal as a cheap hobby server board. I still have one lying around, it still works and was in daily use (for mail, file and miscellaneous serving tasks) until a few years ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6

There's really one need that warrants overclocking -- gaming. I realize I need my processor for other things and not fail at it. I can sip coffee awhile longer while it finishes the job.

sergers 9y ago

A hobby :) Use to be a frequenter of extremesystems.org 10-15 years ago, in the overclocking and water-cooling threads. Good fun. Now practicality wise, I had no use to OC really. Wasn't even a big gamer at the time. Pure fully fun and just seeing if I could (thought I was the cool kid running water-cooling, overclocked cpu/mem/you, installing every nightly patch in Gentoo portage with a tonne of system specific gcc and kernel flags lol). Now my thousands of dollars water-cooling parts, and a q6600 processor have been sitting in garage for 10 years. Use a standard i7 low-end laptop, no desktops in past 10 years

flamedoge 9y ago
I still have q6600 too. was thinking of wiring up again as a home server (or compiler machine like urself?). Also got q8400, A8-3870K, and gaming laptop with i7-6700hq+gtx980m. needless to say, i don't oc laptop at all.

Yetanfou 9y ago

Thousands of (former) Abit BP-6 owners want to have a word with you... remember that one? For those too young to remember, the BP-6 was a dual-socket motherboard which took two Celeron CPUs and allowed all sorts of overclocking trickery. Both the fact that you could run an SMP configuration using Celeron CPU's - something Intel had not foreseen nor intended - as well as the fact that it was possible to get most 300MHz (remember, this is a while ago) Celerons up to 450-466 MHz made it ideal as a cheap hobby server board. I still have one lying around, it still works and was in daily use (for mail, file and miscellaneous serving tasks) until a few years ago. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABIT_BP6