more overclocking disasters bought most from tekheads
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LOL, so in total how many computers has over clocking and water cooling eaten for you?
Quote from: XEntity on March 11, 2011, 18:28:48 PM
LOL, so in total how many computers has over clocking and water cooling eaten for you?
I was Epoxe's no1 killer, 7 mobos, 4 Water blocks, 4 CPU, 4 tecs, 8 sticks of memory,3 pumps, 1 Grafics.
wow you must have rivaled the mighty BigSteve!
Quote from: Mongoose on March 11, 2011, 19:30:43 PM
wow you must have rivaled the mighty BigSteve!
lost hardware we were equal but the old mod from the water cooling section, Jess he started Cool Hardware he gave ME his kit for hitting 3D Mark for 1 day.
wow, coolness, I remember Jess very well, bought most of my own WC rig from him. His radiators were something else.
Quote from: Mongoose on March 11, 2011, 20:12:11 PM
wow, coolness, I remember Jess very well, bought most of my own WC rig from him. His radiators were something else.
j`
lost contact with Jess years ago, does anyone know how to get in touch
I wish we knew how to contact a lot of the old members, there are some legends missing from our fold for sure, Jess being one of them! We lost their accounts long ago in one of the (many) phoenix-like rebirths of the forums.
I had one of those 8K3A+ boards, it was fantastic - I didn't abuse it like you did clearly though :lol:
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 11, 2011, 23:32:53 PM
I wish we knew how to contact a lot of the old members, there are some legends missing from our fold for sure, Jess being one of them! We lost their accounts long ago in one of the (many) phoenix-like rebirths of the forums.
I had one of those 8K3A+ boards, it was fantastic - I didn't abuse it like you did clearly though :lol:
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 11, 2011, 23:32:53 PM
I wish we knew how to contact a lot of the old members, there are some legends missing from our fold for sure, Jess being one of them! We lost their accounts long ago in one of the (many) phoenix-like rebirths of the forums.
I had one of those 8K3A+ boards, it was fantastic - I didn't abuse it like you did clearly though :lol:
Those epox 8K3A+ were the best,, strange how they died.
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on March 11, 2011, 23:32:53 PM
I wish we knew how to contact a lot of the old members, there are some legends missing from our fold for sure, Jess being one of them! We lost their accounts long ago in one of the (many) phoenix-like rebirths of the forums.
I had one of those 8K3A+ boards, it was fantastic - I didn't abuse it like you did clearly though :lol:
Yeah, on that - Anyone here know how to get hold of people here, tell them to come back.
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! ;D
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! :roll:
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! ;D
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! :roll:
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.
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! ;D
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! :roll:
look back on xs I was Xtremesystems top folder until DDTung took over, he does in 1 day what other teams did in a week our rivalss were 2CPU, DDTUNG folded for Jess, I remember when fugar took over, I WAS Well friendly with Xtreme Hardass, TheDude and several from the old xs. a pm to me from DDTung......[Originally Posted by Privateer , DDTUNG DDTUNG wrote on 11-03-2002 09:42 PM:
DDTUNG
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You have encountered instability since gromacs fold hotter than Tinkers. The thing to do is to back off about 50MHZ on your oc and you should be OK.
DDTUNG
Yes, the good old F@H days.
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Floppy drives!! those were indeed the good old days..
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! ;D
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! :roll:
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. :P
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. :P
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! :rofl:
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. :P
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! :rofl:
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. :P
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! :rofl:
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. :P
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. :P
I do now blew a few up bridging them to unlock the multiplier, My technique was on tekheads do you remember.
one of these.
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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. :bow: ;D
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
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?
The DLT we have is still running strongly at 2Ghz.
I remeber those Durons too, but alas they were probably the earliest for me, i was a late started and my first system was a K6 2 450.
I also have a couple of Slot A's knocking around that i bought off someone here, i was thought it was Clocked but he said no :P So i cant remember who it was tbh, one of them is still in a working system.
Had a K6 @ 600 with dual voodo II:s :D
My earliest OC was an AMD K6-2 475Mhz to 550Mhz god the speed change was very noticeable! I wouldn't have touched Intel with a barge pole back in those days, it was at the time they charged like £50 more for an extra 33MHz!.
I then had a Slot A Athlon 800 which I had to pull to bits to unlock, also with a pencil and got it to 900MHz.
I remember the Duron pencil trick crouched over the CPU with a magnifying glass! lol the worst was the chips that they replaced them with and you had to remove the varnish coating the chip and use conductive paint to close the bridges now that was a fiddly job!
Funnily enough i placed my 1 and only order with OCUK as they were selling unlocked and confirmed oc chips, i paid for a chip and was sent the wrong one, when i called them up they didn't want to know, that was the last time i placed an order with them, i think that was the point i got into the scene, not sure.
weren't there some which had a pit in between the bridges so you had to fill the pit with something before you could bridge them? I didn't do much of the modding myself, except the DLT3Cs which I had to take the 12V line from an old PSU to to blow some bridges to change the default multiplier, since my Tyan mobo had no multiplier control.
My first own build was a K6-200. First time I tried overclocking was on my K6-III 450 but they really didn't clock well and I could never get it to post above stock. At the time I was a massive AMD fanboy so couldn't quite bring myself to buy a Celeron 300 and stick a 100MHz FSB up its backside like so many people did. My first successful OC was the Duron 850 I mentioned before.
I do remember a lot of pure OCers worshiped the Celeron and the general feeling was that the Duron couldn't possibly be THAT good. Then the Duron 600 came out and it became apparent you could clock it to better part of 1GHz, and an awful lot of people switched brands.
Quote from: Shaun on March 13, 2011, 16:20:51 PM
My earliest OC was an AMD K6-2 475Mhz to 550Mhz god the speed change was very noticeable! I wouldn't have touched Intel with a barge pole back in those days, it was at the time they charged like £50 more for an extra 33MHz!.
I then had a Slot A Athlon 800 which I had to pull to bits to unlock, also with a pencil and got it to 900MHz.
I remember the Duron pencil trick crouched over the CPU with a magnifying glass! lol the worst was the chips that they replaced them with and you had to remove the varnish coating the chip and use conductive paint to close the bridges now that was a fiddly job!
The old K6'S were my favorite easily beat the Athlons I'm still a total AMD fan always will be
Anyone remember Jungle? :P
I swear we had a high street shop back in the day
Quote from: Mongoose on March 13, 2011, 16:43:26 PM
weren't there some which had a pit in between the bridges so you had to fill the pit with something before you could bridge them?
Yep I forgot about filling the gaps, I used some modelling putty called Milliput that was very much the easy part of the operation lol I found the tube a couple of years ago in an old box filled with redundant OC'ing gear such as fan controls, resistors, thermal compound and mini heat sinks... etc! Couldn't remember at the time what it had been used for but it came back when you mentioned the pits!
God looking back it does look a bit insane of how much effort I would put in for an extra 50MHz lol
Quote from: Shaun on March 13, 2011, 17:09:33 PM
God looking back it does look a bit insane of how much effort I would put in for an extra 50MHz lol
lol yes it does, the length of time I spent getting my Duron from 1GHz (which was easy) to 1017 was crazy.
Damn good fun though.
Quote from: Shaun on March 13, 2011, 17:09:33 PM
Quote from: Mongoose on March 13, 2011, 16:43:26 PM
weren't there some which had a pit in between the bridges so you had to fill the pit with something before you could bridge them?
Yep I forgot about filling the gaps, I used some modelling putty called Milliput that was very much the easy part of the operation lol I found the tube a couple of years ago in an old box filled with redundant OC'ing gear such as fan controls, resistors, thermal compound and mini heat sinks... etc! Couldn't remember at the time what it had been used for but it came back when you mentioned the pits!
God looking back it does look a bit insane of how much effort I would put in for an extra 50MHz lol
Like this i filled with super glue then used windscreen heater repair paint with a small art brush.
(http://privateer17.co.uk/XP%202%20B.jpg)
I modded a couple of XP chips for dual CPU and a tyan board with the heated window paint, i made a track around the hole in the hole rather than trying to fill it