OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

A pentium3 won't be 1998 era, thats more 2001-ish.

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...

[mariushm]

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.

[TechGeek]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

O.o

Today, you can get a Blu-Ray burner for about $100!

[diif]

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...

I had the same CPU in my first PC, I don't remember the motherboard, but i do remember paying £200 for a 2x CD burner for it.

[mariushm]

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...

[Topcat]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

Or a Pentium III at 1.2GHz?

A pentium3 won't be 1998 era, thats more 2001-ish.

[eccerr0r]

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.

[TechGeek]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

Or a Pentium III at 1.2GHz?

[electromaster84]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

Why not a K6-III+ at just 1 jiggahertz?

[Heihachi_73]

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?

[eccerr0r]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

I remember swapping crystal oscillators once to overclock... this was circa 1994, however.

[dmill89]

Re: OC'ing a motherboard from 1998(sarcastic)

1998 huh.... Let me guess DIP-switches to set the frequency?

[TechGeek]

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.