OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
Hi all. I'm OC'ing a motherboard from '98, and I want to show you how it's done. It's going to be awesome, and photos/instructions are coming later. 
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Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
1998 huh.... Let me guess DIP-switches to set the frequency? -
Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
I remember swapping crystal oscillators once to overclock... this was circa 1994, however.Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
Nothing for a month, is it time to bring out the violins for the brave old Pentium III who wanted to run at two jiggahertz?
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
Why not a K6-III+ at just 1 jiggahertz?
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
Or a Pentium III at 1.2GHz?Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
I overclocked my P3 so much it says %&2 MHz.
True story.
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Actually it's not really overclocked much. Nor do I don't recall what characters it printed there, but the multiplier and FSB speed combo isn't in the table of supported frequencies so it went past bounds and printed garbage.Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
Oh the old times... I remember my first PC ever with AMD K6-2 333 Mhz ( ? x 66 mhz) and overclocking it to 350 Mhz by going with 100 mhz bus and 3.5x multiplier.
The board was also one of the best in my country at the time, a PC Chips Elipina m577 : http://www.amoretro.de/2011/11/pc-ch...on_pm9900.html
Good times...Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
O.o
Today, you can get a Blu-Ray burner for about $100!Don't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
A year or so after my parents bought that system with k6-2 cpu (which had a 24x cd-rom) , i was given an older 486 for free which came with a Mitsumi 1x cd-rom on SCSI with the ISA based SCSI card from Adaptec.
That was cool stuff, you pushed on a button on the drive's case (similar to the ones on ball point pens) and a cartridge would come out, then you lift the top cover and put the cd in, close the cover and push the cartridge back in.
Yeah , it was pretty much this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUBeHWVHh9U
The guy that owned the company my parents bought the computer from had a 2x external HP CD writer, which was transferring data to the drive using the parallel port.
Slow as hell (took something like 40-50 minutes to burn a CD), but quite something for that time.Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
And anyone that encounters a pre-2000s Pentium III is encountering a "Katmai". "Katmai" was the first generation Pentium III that's pretty much a Pentium II with SSE! They aren't socket 370 at all!
They are cartridges! (slot 1) "Katmai" came out in 1999, IIRC...Last edited by RJARRRPCGP; 08-18-2016, 07:54 PM.ASRock B550 PG Velocita
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
I have a 1.2 GHz Celeron from 2001, it's the same HP Pavilion 500a with the dead Bestec PSU that I posted on here a long time ago - sat for nearly a decade, wouldn't work when I took it out of the wardrobe. Found a ton of bloated JPCE-TUR caps that weren't like that when I put it up there. I had a spare SFF PSU for it so it's working again, but it's back in storage since it's all but useless today, and the Intel 810 chipset (82810E) and PCI slots only means it doesn't have a hope of being used for even retro gaming (24-bit on the desktop/GDI and 16-bit in D3D/OGL - no drivers in the world will give this one 32-bit graphics).
The other P3s and P3-based Celerons are mostly all Slot 1 though (I have a few other Socket 370s, but nothing to write home about, and most of them also have bad PSUs, all being from that era when caps had the lifespan of a fly).Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
All of those are (or were) worth more than the PC and PCs two generations newer.
PCI video cards were generally always more expensive than their AGP equivalents for some reason. The Intel 815 chipset added support for AGP video cards - on mine, the BIOS already supported AGP, but the 810 chipset didn't and the board didn't even have solder pads for an AGP slot, it had chips and other surface-mounted stuff in that area - I've seen other non-HP 810 boards that actually put the ATX connector there!Comment
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Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)
talk about proprietary designsDon't buy those $10 PSU "specials". They fail, and they have taken whole computers with them.
My computer doubles as a space heater.
Permanently Retired Systems:
RIP Advantech UNO-3072LA (2008-2021) - Decommissioned and taken out of service permanently due to lack of software support for it. Not very likely to ever be recommissioned again.
Asus Q550LF (Old main laptop, 2014-2022) - Decommissioned and stripped due to a myriad of problems, the main battery bloating being the final nail in the coffin.
Kooky and Kool Systems
- 1996 Power Macintosh 7200/120 + PC Compatibility Card - Under Restoration
- 1993 Gateway 2000 80486DX/50 - Fully Operational/WIP
- 2004 Athlon 64 Retro Gaming System - Indefinitely Parked
- Main Workstation - Fully operational!
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