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 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 

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? 

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.

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