Those were some good specs back in the day… And the price 😯

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    11 months ago

    That mouser was so comfy (first consumer optical)! You could spin it out, but then again also overclock it.

    And not to brag, but I bought (also my third computer) a Celeron 300A at that time & overclocked it from 300 to 450MHz making it the fastest Intel CPU for years. Those were some good days.

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      11 months ago

      Hello fellow overclocker! Got myself the 366 and managed to get it to a consistent 550, 605 with a box fan on it 😂

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        11 months ago

        Damn, what a rush! And a fellow golden-era overclocker.

        I couldn’t manage over 500 on my Celeron, I tried the pin-voltage trick but it made no difference.

        Also the last time I didn’t really have to worry about cooling - for my next CPU (Thunderbird) I made a custom water block (gramps helped a lot :)).

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      11 months ago

      My first PC build was a K6-2, overclocked with jumpers from 300 to 400 MHz. Setting Vcore with jumpers made for a very exciting first power on!

      These days it’s hard to destroy a processor by overclocking, and it seems like it’s on its last legs. My 3090 and 5800X3D have no headroom, it’s the first non overclocked rig I’ve had since 2001.

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        11 months ago

        For real tho. What kind of bs OCing is lowering the voltage (curve) banking on the chip being good enough to run more efficiently to go faster.

        And gone are the days when CPUs didn’t have thermal throttling (for purely safety purposes, iirc those shitty early P4 were the first ones to have it). I fried the Thunderbird I mentioned when I was testing some coolers and accidentally ran it for like 5 seconds without the cooler on. Its still a nice ornament on my wall tho. And a reminder of my brainholes intellect. Also nostalgia.