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I was browsing the forums today for the first time in a while(Curse Morrowind!) and I looked over all the new posts about core 2's and AM2's and I thought about all those poor old processors that are just being left behind. Well I fired up my ubuntu box(see sig for specs) and I was wondering if I could breathe some life into it in the form of an overclock. Well as you can see, I got a nice 150mhz overclock on it with passive cooling and I was pretty happy about that. Didn't really show a performance boost of any kind in anything but it was still fun to see how far it would go.

 

Anyway, I know that we've got topics for OC'ing 775's and 939's but how about a competition to see how far you can push that old socket 7(or anything that's old) cpu of yours? I personally think this would be pretty fun if it picked up momentum. Just imagine 3 months from now having *Insert one of the faces of OCC here* brag about how his/her k6 hit 1ghz on water! :D I'll get some superpi scores up for it as soon as I have the time but in the mean time, I challange you all to beat my epic passive OC :P

 

Sit back, grab a drink and flip those switches, the competition is on!

 

TOOLS

 

CPUMark 99 ==> Starts download immediately

SuperPI 1M ==> Get Superpi Here.

CPU-Z ==> CPU-Z...

 

Please post a CPU-Z screenshot along with your benchmarks.

SuperPi 1M

road-runner 2227MHz Athlon(Socket A Thorton) - 000h 00m 56.661s

Andrewr05 1343MHz Athlon(Socket A T-Bird) - 000h 01m 55.987s

iKillSteal 450Mhz K6-II(Socket 7 "Little Foot") - 000h 10m 49.672s

SuperPI 32M

road-runner 2227MHz Athlon(Socket A Thorton) - 001h 4m 13.040s

Andrewr05 1343MHz Athlon(Socket A T-Bird) - 001h 40m 46.24s

 

CPUMark99

road-runner 2227MHz Athlon(Socket A Thorton) - 185

Andrewr05 1343MHz Athlon(Socket A T-Bird) - 116

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best % oc I ever did on anything that old was a PII 350 that hit 466, stock voltage, retail cooler.

 

 

keep in mind this was on a BX board, PC100 ram (there was NO PC133 even)

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i got sucky cpu's that wouldn't oc, even on proven overclocking motherboards

 

PI-200 (lol... no ocing on the bizarre Iwill mobo)

PIII-800 (8x100 stock), Abit BE6-II v2.0 (Intel 440BX), PC100 --> final stable OC = 8x109=872 MHz (9% oc lol), could've been the PC100 ram though dividers didn't help

XP2500 (11x166, 1826 stock), MSI K7N2 Delta-L (NForce2 Ultra 400), PC3200 --> final stable OC = 11x192=2112 (15.7% oc lol)

 

then it all changed with socket 939 and i found my calling... or something... :lol:

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i got sucky cpu's that wouldn't oc, even on proven overclocking motherboards

 

PI-200 (lol... no ocing on the bizarre Iwill mobo)

PIII-800 (8x100 stock), Abit BE6-II v2.0 (Intel 440BX), PC100 --> final stable OC = 8x109=872 MHz (9% oc lol), could've been the PC100 ram though dividers didn't help

XP2500 (11x166, 1826 stock), MSI K7N2 Delta-L (NForce2 Ultra 400), PC3200 --> final stable OC = 11x192=2112 (15.7% oc lol)

 

then it all changed with socket 939 and i found my calling... or something... :lol:

What about your famous 9800pro :P

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infamous yeah... right up there with the 2500+... most of either could achieve higher than my max oc's on stock voltage... mine were way way outta spec on the volts :lol:

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i dont have proof but i got a socket 370 celeron 533mhz to i think 880mhz with the fsb being at 110mhz up from the stock 66mhz. thats a 60% oc lol. it was on an asus cusl2-c motherboard with pc150 ram.

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Found my old copy of xp pro sp1 and decided to install and run superpi on it. The image says it all...

 

LMAO what's with the sudden resurgance in Retro Technology around the forum(s) lately? :lol:

 

The fastest I ever pushed a (naked) K62-500 processor was 600Mhz *on air* @ 2.4v (stable), I understand the K63+ versions could do that easily, are you just going to use superPI to compare OC'ed Retro's or adopt some additional testing suites ie. CPUmark99 etc?

 

 

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