The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs

[Arbie]

My TRS-80 laughs at your paltry gains. That's a 100% OC by jumpering around a flip-flop. Takes it from a measly 1.79MHz to a screaming 3.58MHz of raw Z80 CPU goodness. Man do the bits fly!

For those considering this mod, it's free and has even more effect than the leap from 4K to 16K of RAM, though that's also huge.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Another great read and stroll down memory lane.

The Celeron 300A was used in the first PC I ever built. Then I went to the AMD Athlon 700 and stayed with AMD to the Athlon64 days.

What were Celerons like? I never had one and I've heard mixed reviews.

 

[neeyik]

What I'm trying to figure out is how the FX-series wasn't even mentioned in the article despite the fact that 18 of the top 20 CPUs in the OC record books are FX. That's like talking about the history of the World Soccer Cup and not mentioning Brazil. It's a joke.

Graham’s article was written in 2014, when there wasn’t the amount of LN overclocking enthusiasts about as there are now.

 

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Graham’s article was written in 2014, when there wasn’t the amount of LN overclocking enthusiasts about as there are now.

Wha? 2014? What's it doing here 8 (almost 9) years later??? I thought that it was new... Well, I guess he had good reason then since the FX was only 2 years old at that point.

I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone now.

 

[neeyik]

Wha? 2014? What's it doing here 8 years later???

Part of our Throwback Thursday - oldie but goldie articles getting a new (and slightly confused) audience

 

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Part of our Throwback Thursday - oldie but goldie articles getting a new (and slightly confused) audience

Well, I can see that my reaction was a bit unwarranted, but if that article were new, I would've stood by it. Ish... Now I'm going to have to check article dates. My brain will be broken soon, mark my words!