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Comment by bdavbdav

12 hours ago

Was that the ol’ pencil mod?

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.