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Shinare
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Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 13332
Location: Up your butt with a coconut!!
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Gosh, I hate to sound like an old fuddy-duddy but...
[Old Fuddy-Duddy="Back in my day tone"]
OCing was an art... my first OC was a 286 that I de-soldered the 8MHz crystal and soldered in a 16MHz crystal instantly passing my college roommate's crappy old 12MHz 286 of which he lorded over me every chance he got hehe. Then after successfully doing that I got the idea to use the same type crystal on my 8088 and... viola... I had a computer that was actually seemed to run much faster than the 286... for about 30 minutes... then the processor blew in a spectacular fashion. Back then there were no heatsinks, no heat spreaders, and when that baby blew, the pop was loud, and the smoke and smell was real. None of this "it just stopped working" crap that happens now-a-days. hehe
Later on down the road, you could OC your processor by shoring pins on the processor to advertise to the motherboard what FSB it should be running at... that was fun. Oh... and drawing a specific length pencil line between traces on the motherboard to affect the FSB speed.
After that, motherboard makers got wise and thought if they add OCing into the BIOS they can take some sales from the competition. Those "hidden" OC screens were complex and allowed every form of tweaking the FSB imaginable. Then intel got wise and locked processor multipliers... then they got more wise and started charging extra for unlocked multipliers...
Now-a-days you can OC with one setting in the BIOS rather than pageS of settings... OCing is so fundmentally different and easy that anyone who builds a system can do it, with good results on stock cooling.
To me... its just not fun anymore. Everything is done for you. You dont have to worry about memory address allocation, IRQ interrupt conflicts, banks of jumpers and dip switches, weather you plugged your ribbon cable in upside down and where pin 1 was on it. (the red wire). The VERY real possibility of inserting your processor in the wrong way and either killing it instantly, or spending the next 2 hours trying to bend a tiny pin back to straight up and down from flat within a forest of other pins. *sigh*
Now don't get me wrong, don't mistake "fun" for "better". I am in no way saying it used to be better. It just used to be more fun which in a way is kinda better, but not to the final outcome of the actual OC. hehehe [/Old Fuddy-Duddy]
Feel free to dismiss this post as the ramblings of an old man. _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
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Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:21 am
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