Still got anyone that missed OC'ing real old school Athlons? (Including T-Bird!)

[RJARRRPCGP]

First Athlon to overclock:

Back in 2002, I seemed to have the same kind of thing going on with my 2001 T-Bird 900 as this post:

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10748

But, mine was worse, it was only light load stable at 1050.

This one was notorious for the "STOP: 0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" BSOD. Wouldn't stand a chance in Prime95 at 1050. But, I didn't even know Prime95 existed as a processor stability tester.
So I just ran Need For Speed III and even with a late 1990s (1998) game was a guaranteed Windows XP crash!
It didn't help that I was stuck with a Deer 250W PSU, LOL.

I did better with my 2002-made T'bred 2000+ AIUCB, at least I got it to the 2.0 back in June and July, 2004.

 

[Audioaficionado]

Not me. It was fun back then, but I'd just as soon not have to hardware mod equipment to O/C. Much better to do it on the fly through BIOS or software. Now moding cooling to compensate for an O/C is still something you can put your hands on for a good DIY experience.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

My first Athlon board OC'ed with switches that are easy to set for the multi.

No board mods needed. And the pencil mod was only required for the T-Bird.

 

[glussier]

I don't miss anything. But, I still have a Soyo kt400 dragon ultra with a Barton 2500+@3200+ (2.2 ghz), 1.5GB ddr 400 and a Radeon 9800Pro.

A few months ago, one of my grand-kids wanted to see if that computer was still working. I powered-it on and it still works great, and it's still good enough to play old games such as ut2003, quake 3 and so on.

 

[Dr. McCoy]

Good to hear it's still kicking - I too have an old Soyo board, namely a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! board that I've had since it was new. Still works great inspite of having a cap or two beginning to swell up so I would need to replace them before too long.
Have other "A" stuff as well and I do set one of them up every now and then for kicks and just to let it run.

 

[moz_21]

I've still got an A7N8X kicking, along with a K7D dually, both overclocked and run well. I miss the fun but not the noise or heat.

 

[glussier]

I also have an Abit nf7-s, an msi kt3 ultra and an amd 1700+ tbred B. All of this back in their boxes. The kt3 ultra was a piece of Junk.