← Back to context Comment by bdavbdav 12 hours ago Was that the ol’ pencil mod? 3 comments bdavbdav Reply theandrewbailey 12 hours ago No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods. cdmckay 11 hours ago Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock. lightedman 7 hours ago I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.
theandrewbailey 12 hours ago No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods. cdmckay 11 hours ago Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock. lightedman 7 hours ago I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.
cdmckay 11 hours ago Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock. lightedman 7 hours ago I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.
lightedman 7 hours ago I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.
No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods.
Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock.
I took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.
Slap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.