Athlon fun fun fun...

[FreeLoader]

Hey, I just thought I would let everyone know about my little mis-adventures with my AMD Athlon 1.4ghz...

I overclocked it.

1.534ghz now...

All I did was use fuzzy logic 4.something or other...

It's not much, but you know what? 130mhz ain't to chabby with stock cooling...especially since maximumPC said that it would only go up 100 or so mhz without liquid cooling...

I'm happy...and apparently it is too, its running EXACTLY the same as it was before I oc'd it. same voltage, same temps, same friggin fan speed, its nice...

anyway, just lettin u guys know, for the more unfortunate out there, such as myself...

[saphalline]

WOW!! :eek:

That's very impressive for that CPU! I've never heard of such a lucky overclock of the infamous T-bird 1.4 - that CPU is known to be among the least overclockable because its speed is already pushing the T-bird limit and it produced so much heat. Only the P4 "Willamette" 2GHz and the AthlonXP "Palomino" 2000+ are in the same unfortunate boat.

Again, congrats on your successful adventure! :D

[FreeLoader]

heh, thx.

I actually expected to be put down for bothering with an older technology processor.

So, thx for the props!

[pave_spectre]

Hey, if you can do something unexepected or unusual with older stuff that is usually believed to be incapable of doing certain things, then that will usually get some geek cred.:cool:

[saphalline]

I actually expected to be put down for bothering with an older technology processor.Old!? You wanna talk about old? I overclocked my old Pentium MMX machine! From 166MHz to a whopping 200MHz! :p

Sure it's only 33MHz more, but that equates to an increase of 20%! :eek: Hehe, I'm still looking into getting that sucker up to 233MHz. Woohoo, Win98 will be smokin' then! It's funny, tho, because my P4 is overclocked by over 200MHz, so I got an extra Pentium out of it! And it's still not done OC'ing! :D

Overclocking is as old as mobo jumpers, so don't go thinking we'll yell at you for any overclocking adventure you have. At least your CPU is over 1GHz. How many people can say that? What's the average CPU speed today? Like 700MHz?

My next trick is an original Socket5 Pentium 100 system (co-worker got a new PC). I think I can get it up to 150MHz (max for the mobo) with some extra cooling and maybe a voltage increase. The really fun part of overclocking older systems is the weird proprietary cr*p you see. This P100 is the strangest Dell I've ever seen. It has SIMM memory on an ATX mobo with a riser card and onboard 10-BaseT LAN. Funky, huh?

[pave_spectre]

Originally posted by saphalline
Hehe, I'm still looking into getting that sucker up to 233MHz

He he, I did that with an old 166 machine of my parents a few years ago. It ran beautifully during winter but as soon as summer rolled around it was BSOD all round. Nothing but the stock cooling for that thing since I had hoped it would explode (metaphorically or literally) so they would be forced to upgrade.

[FreeLoader]

ok, you've got a good point.

I still figure that an xp of the same speed would blow my athlon away, just from the sheer technology....013 micron, 266/333 fsb, so on.

My dad has some oldies but goodies in the garage and attic, such as a commador 64 and something even older...a very, very old one...I'll ask him which one it is.

[pave_spectre]

A commodore 64? thats going a ways back. I used one of them when I was kid. Actually I would be curious to find out if it would be at all possible to overclock one of those to any degree?:p

[FreeLoader]

A vic20, or however its spelled...thats the other thing he has.

It would be kinda funny to try and overclock them, but there's no way I'm risking it, they're both pretty rare.;)

[saphalline]

I don't think you could overclock them. They weren't all that upgradable so there probably aren't many options on the circuit boards. Of course, you could make some nice frankenstein hardware if you could get your hands on some old control chips, memory, and electrical engineering books. :D

Still, I wouldn't risk it. Pave_spectre is right, those things are very rare, especially in working condition. Keep them around to sell to some museum in another decade! :cool:

[pave_spectre]

I wouldnt seriously expect anyone to try and overclock something like that, I was merely curios about if it is at all possible in theory rather than practice. I suspect that if it were it would be very easy to overclock too much resulting a big plastic paperweight.:D