Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 12, 2011, 09:13:04 AM

Quote from: Shaun on March 12, 2011, 01:05:05 AM
Haha now I remember why I bypassed Tec cooling and went straight from water cooling to phase change ...so many horror stories about a slight problem which would be fine 95% of the time with air or watercooling but with a Tec meant BOOM!!! The lot goes! 

I also had a Epox 8K3A+ for awhile (high FSB killed then IIRC) I got 145 out of mine, I was so jealous of those who could hit 150+ lol!!! The Epox was the early K7 board of choice till the  ABit NF7-S 2.0 came out which murdered it on FSB! ...which was king back then.
 
I bumped into Jess after his company folded in about 2005-06 on Xtremesystems forum, I had a outstanding RMA for a stick of 256mb of uber fast Ram at the time his company was wound up, which was way over  100 quid back then!  I wasn't very nice to him, but to be fair he did sort it out very quickly and got a replacement to me, but the Ram was an exact replacement!  ...so at least 2 years out of date and worth about 25 quid by that stage ...but better than a poke in the eye! lol

We had a few people who ran OC'ing business posting on here back then, there was Paulus who was VERY into watercooling and Stella Artois, I bought quite a bit from Stella Artois company he was a Prometeia reseller and had good prices, he wouldn't charge postage to regulars which at the time was rare as 95% of online business charged a pretty standard 6 quid or whatever next day special delivery was with Royal Mail at the time, even on a 2 quid order! 

I think Tekheads did a deal with Paulus to get in some Prommy kit. My memory is a bit hazy on that though I remember thinking how heavy they were at the time.

I also reckon the Abit NF7-S 2.0 was the best selling motherboard of all time, we were selling them by the palletload compared to any other board.

Clock'd 0Ne  If you look at pic 1 and  pic 9 different waterblocks but both onn the Abit nf7 from Tekheads

Quote from: Binary Shadow on March 12, 2011, 12:09:53 PM
Floppy drives!! those were indeed the good old days..

i used to flash my bios for custom overclocking

DLT3C some of you might remember.

I'm more of an AXIA kinda of guy

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 18:39:01 PM
DLT3C some of you might remember.

I had a couple of those back in the day bloody good chips! I had 2 of them at home crunching 24/7 for the forum's distributed computing team and also my Prommie cooled Barton about 12-16 hours a day also running it.

I can't remember what the program was called but I remember it did cancer research, I installed it on all my clients machines at one stage so had about 30 different computers turning in results under my name lol but I couldn't catch the American guy who had access to a silly  number of computers and nearly scored more points for the team than the rest of us put together!

Quote from: Shaun on March 12, 2011, 19:31:53 PM

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 18:39:01 PM
DLT3C some of you might remember.

I had a couple of those back in the day bloody good chips! I had 2 of them at home crunching 24/7 for the forum's distributed computing team and also my Prommie cooled Barton about 12-16 hours a day also running it.

I can't remember what the program was called but I remember it did cancer research, I installed it on all my clients machines at one stage so had about 30 different computers turning in results under my name lol but I couldn't catch the American guy who had access to a silly  number of computers and nearly scored more points for the team than the rest of us put together!

Folding@Home was a popular one.

We had one of those chips still running until Mid last year in a system i built for my brother years ago when i had a chip leftover

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 19:47:18 PM

Quote from: Shaun on March 12, 2011, 19:31:53 PM

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 18:39:01 PM
DLT3C some of you might remember.

I had a couple of those back in the day bloody good chips! I had 2 of them at home crunching 24/7 for the forum's distributed computing team and also my Prommie cooled Barton about 12-16 hours a day also running it.

I can't remember what the program was called but I remember it did cancer research, I installed it on all my clients machines at one stage so had about 30 different computers turning in results under my name lol but I couldn't catch the American guy who had access to a silly  number of computers and nearly scored more points for the team than the rest of us put together!

Folding@Home was a popular one.

We had one of those chips still running until Mid last year in a system i built for my brother years ago when i had a chip leftover

Bloody Mental  technology now,  my main PC has a core6 at 4.4  GB, I Blew up a few AMD XP's trying to squeeze a few MHZ OUT off it Folding@Home  relied on just 1 more MHZ, I blew up sh*tlofds  folding for XS on 3365

Lol those where the days when i had money to burn literally !
3 mobo's in a week was my record for killing stuff , i remember me & Jess
getting through about 10 x 1.333ghx axia's in about a 3 week period getting
TEC cooling sorted.
Was just getting the contact just right , would be easy nowadays with chips
with heatspeaders.Don't get me wrong it was great fun pushing so hard .
Oh yes , still have the mobo & CPU i used in Prommie & it still works
Is in my spare system but just watercooled now , the radiator is from a kit i bought
from the USA back in 2001.

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 18:39:01 PM
DLT3C some of you might remember.

LOL I've got one of those sitting in an ABit NF7 in the attic.

Quote from: Bacon on March 12, 2011, 18:39:01 PM
DLT3C some of you might remember.

I do now blew a few up bridging them to unlock the multiplier, My technique was on tekheads do you remember.
one of these.

Quote from: bigsteve on March 12, 2011, 20:30:22 PM
Lol those where the days when i had money to burn literally !
3 mobo's in a week was my record for killing stuff , i remember me & Jess
getting through about 10 x 1.333ghx axia's in about a 3 week period getting
TEC cooling sorted.
Was just getting the contact just right , would be easy nowadays with chips
with heatspeaders.Don't get me wrong it was great fun pushing so hard .
Oh yes , still have the mobo & CPU i used in Prommie & it still works
Is in my spare system but just watercooled now , the radiator is from a kit i bought
from the USA back in 2001.

What happened to your Prommie Steve?

Mine got retired in 2006 and is still sat under a load of boxes somewhere in the spare room, the LCD display failed and it needed a re-gassing as it was struggling to keep temps below -15 under full load, I did mean to get it fixed but CPU's I had for a couple of years after that had the "cold bug" and didn't respond well to sub zero temps and by about 2008 when I was next looking to upgrade they had stopped producing new fixing kits.
I did get about 4 years out of it and got some epic overclocks (for the time)  the highlights where an early Barton 2500+ (1800Mhz) at 2700Mhz (never did manage to get 3GHz out of a AMD K7 the max I got was about 2900MHz), Intel P4 3Ghz at 5100MHz and a early AMD 64 ClawHammer at 2800MHz.

Such a shame AMD can't keep up on the CPU front like they could back then, the OC'ing community was a lot more interesting with the Intel V AMD battle! but I do still stick to their graphics cards out of respect for what they achieved back then. 

My Prommie like yours has been retired  , it still works , checked it a few weeks ago.Frost starts to form on the connection to the evaporator head , nothing much but not a good idea to run continuously.Thought about getting it sorted , better refrigerant , new evap head & retaining system but the costs are massive.
It did run for more than 2 1/2 years 24/7 , mainly crunching so did a fair amount of work.
Like you said the gains from a prommie nowadays would likely be very small over watercooling or good aircooling , would be better off converting it to cool GPU instead.

Quote from: bigsteve on March 13, 2011, 09:39:42 AM
My Prommie like yours has been retired  , it still works , checked it a few weeks ago.Frost starts to form on the connection to the evaporator head , nothing much but not a good idea to run continuously.Thought about getting it sorted , better refrigerant , new evap head & retaining system but the costs are massive.
It did run for more than 2 1/2 years 24/7 , mainly crunching so did a fair amount of work.
Like you said the gains from a prommie nowadays would likely be very small over watercooling or good aircooling , would be better off converting it to cool GPU instead.

I Have a Corsair H70 on my 3.2 AMD 1090T 6 core running at 4.4 gb my Asus Crosshair 4 was designed to O/C  the options are mental,, I Remember modding everything.

I had a pair of DLT3C's modded for SMP operation on an ASUS board at one point, that was a sweet setup. water cooled they broke 2.1GHz per processor which at the time was quite insane. Alas I managed to blow the ASUS up and although the Tyan I replaced it with was stable as a rock I never quite got the speed back. Only finally retired that system ~ 18 months ago.

But if we're going to play "who can throw around the oldest CPU clocking stories" I had a Duron 850 pre-tested to 1GHz from OCS. I think I got her to top out at about 1017 with an unusual FSB.

Surely there's got to be someone still around who had a Celery 300a @ 450?

Quote from: Mongoose on March 13, 2011, 14:05:57 PM
I had a pair of DLT3C's modded for SMP operation on an ASUS board at one point, that was a sweet setup. water cooled they broke 2.1GHz per processor which at the time was quite insane. Alas I managed to blow the ASUS up and although the Tyan I replaced it with was stable as a rock I never quite got the speed back. Only finally retired that system ~ 18 months ago.

But if we're going to play "who can throw around the oldest CPU clocking stories" I had a Duron 850 pre-tested to 1GHz from OCS. I think I got her to top out at about 1017 with an unusual FSB.

Surely there's got to be someone still around who had a Celery 300a @ 450?

Durons were the best I unlocked a few with my 2b pencil, LOL I unlocked 1 motherboard by the onboard jumper multiplyer i took a 200 to 300 and sold it