1) I started overclocking about the same time I started building PCs without any help. Well Actually I purchased it. A POS HP unit. onboard AGP no AGP slot, board could handle an upgrade from a 700 MHz celery, to an 800 MHz celery. Got pissed sold the guts, I kept the case, and built my own unit. And I found out, I could adjust the speed.
It became a price thing for me. I could buy a cheap computer and make it better than the best systems at the time. Athlon XP.
2) The turning point for me, was my winnie 3200. Had some busted TCCD Geil sticks that would run nothing but 2 CAS. An 8 dollar rosewill heatsink, (MRII I believe) VIA K8T800 pro motherboard from MSI, and couple of odd shaped HDDs running in raid (a 20 and a 40GB IIRC) Overclocked as far as I could (about 500MHZ on the ram at 2-2-2-5) and popped 35ns Mem latency test in Everest. (TBH, Not sure it was everest at the time, might have been Aida)
That setup was so snappy. I have been chasing that buzz ever since. Ran the gamut of 939 setups. Skipped AM2 cause I did not see the point, and thought DDR2 was too slow due to its much higher latencies. Went c2d and c2q, killed a q6600 trying to get 500FSB. Got a 45nm Q9300 up to about 535 IIRC, and believe me after running c2q, the microstutter going back to C2d was SOO obvious, it did disappear after about 2 weeks though (i just got used to it I guess). Sold everything went Phenom when I got a deal on a 9950BE. Sinked the FET's on a TA790GX and OCed it hell and back.
Then I got me a 920 PhenTwo. The snap was back. Wow. Restored my faith in computers.
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Last edited by Neuromancer; 07-28-2009 at 05:55 AM.
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