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I still remember my dual celeron 450 clocked to 900 mhz. Those chips ran rock solid at double their rated clock, no didling the voltage or anything. Just need

by K0balt 2y ago

I still remember my dual celeron 450 clocked to 900 mhz. Those chips ran rock solid at double their rated clock, no didling the voltage or anything. Just needed decent cooling. Never mind that at the time having 2 processors was nearly useless.

geerlingguy 2y ago
Heh, back in those days decent cooling was a lot easier than now (for overclocking, at least). That's one nice thing working on these little mobile chips—I don't need a $300 cooler, I can use a cheap little water block, or a small peltier element that doesn't cost much at all... and it's not being a space heater for the room. It's only pulling maybe 10-20W max.
- metadat 2y ago
  Where are these "cheap" water blocks you speak of? Haha, I've never encountered such a thing. Except maybe the $100 Corsair liquid coolers, but c'mon, they aren't real water cooling
riedel 2y ago
I still remember that time, when you actually waited for the low end chip to be released and get it as fast as the earlier released flagships. Was a different time. But I also roughly remember having a dual socket board at the time with two overclocked celerons if my mind does not fool me. Funnily my wife is still using this 25 year old PC case, in which I glued bitumen for sound damping, for her current ryzen based PC.
- MattPalmer1086 2y ago
  Haha, yes, back in the 90s I had a dual Gigabyte motherboard and two 300Mhz Celerons overclocked to 450. Helped a lot with 3d animation and video rendering, but not much else!
bayindirh 2y ago
I have overclocked a 1433MHz Athlon 1700+ (TBred/B IIRC) to 2200 MHz (3200+ levels) with an AN7-Ultra. The secret sauce was running it at 200x11, with 1T capable RAMs, and that thing was snappier than "bog standard" 3200+ systems a considerable amount. Without much of a voltage bump, and a good cooling solution, it ran within its thermal design without noise, and with rock solid stability. That system lived more than 15 years IIRC.
seanp2k2 2y ago
My favorite OCs were a $250 Black Friday special Celeron laptop that I pin-modded using a few-mm long piece of a single strand of stranded cat5 to go from (IIRC) 1.5Ghz to 2.0Ghz by just shorting two pins on the socket under the CPU, and a 4.6ghz (3.3-3.7ghz stock) Sandy Bridge i5-2500k that was rock-solid on air cooling with a comically large (especially at the time) tower cooler. That latter desktop ran the heck out of Team Fortress 2 (which I still play at least once a week with one of the last remaining community servers, End of the Line Gaming) for many many years.
aae42 2y ago
i had a 1.4ghz Duron i ran stably at 2.45ghz, amazing value

by K0balt 2y ago

geerlingguy 2y ago

Heh, back in those days decent cooling was a lot easier than now (for overclocking, at least). That's one nice thing working on these little mobile chips—I don't need a $300 cooler, I can use a cheap little water block, or a small peltier element that doesn't cost much at all... and it's not being a space heater for the room. It's only pulling maybe 10-20W max.

metadat 2y ago
Where are these "cheap" water blocks you speak of? Haha, I've never encountered such a thing. Except maybe the $100 Corsair liquid coolers, but c'mon, they aren't real water cooling

riedel 2y ago

I still remember that time, when you actually waited for the low end chip to be released and get it as fast as the earlier released flagships. Was a different time. But I also roughly remember having a dual socket board at the time with two overclocked celerons if my mind does not fool me. Funnily my wife is still using this 25 year old PC case, in which I glued bitumen for sound damping, for her current ryzen based PC.

MattPalmer1086 2y ago
Haha, yes, back in the 90s I had a dual Gigabyte motherboard and two 300Mhz Celerons overclocked to 450. Helped a lot with 3d animation and video rendering, but not much else!

bayindirh 2y ago

I have overclocked a 1433MHz Athlon 1700+ (TBred/B IIRC) to 2200 MHz (3200+ levels) with an AN7-Ultra. The secret sauce was running it at 200x11, with 1T capable RAMs, and that thing was snappier than "bog standard" 3200+ systems a considerable amount. Without much of a voltage bump, and a good cooling solution, it ran within its thermal design without noise, and with rock solid stability. That system lived more than 15 years IIRC.

seanp2k2 2y ago

My favorite OCs were a $250 Black Friday special Celeron laptop that I pin-modded using a few-mm long piece of a single strand of stranded cat5 to go from (IIRC) 1.5Ghz to 2.0Ghz by just shorting two pins on the socket under the CPU, and a 4.6ghz (3.3-3.7ghz stock) Sandy Bridge i5-2500k that was rock-solid on air cooling with a comically large (especially at the time) tower cooler. That latter desktop ran the heck out of Team Fortress 2 (which I still play at least once a week with one of the last remaining community servers, End of the Line Gaming) for many many years.

aae42 2y ago

i had a 1.4ghz Duron i ran stably at 2.45ghz, amazing value