OverClocking Madness..

I have had this madness ever since my dad bought me my first PC .. it was in the year 1997 ..

My first PC .. was the famous well known Pentium with MMX technology from Intel. I still remember after only a week my dad bought me the PC, i dissasemble it for the first time where my dad saw me doing it and scolded me. But it is now totally a different storym whenever my dad or mum's close frens having problem with their PCs... they will ask me go help take a look. I use to love helping ppl out with their PC, that juz because i love computer so much no matter wat model isit. Since everyone is looking for me regarding the PC problem, time goes by .. i started to get bored with it coz there is too many frens without PC knowledge.. sometimes .. when they ask me.. do u know this or that.. i will juz says .. sorry i dunno .. haha.. sorry dudes.. i really hate helping ppl solving their PC errors d.. like my mum says .. i always help ppl out without asking them to pay me or so.. else i wont get bored with it.. lolz..

Well, lets get back to the main topic.. Ever since i got my first PC .. it was an Intel Pentium MMX rated at 200 MHz. back then i still remember i only had 2x 8MB ram and a 2.1GB Quantum Bigfoot harddisk, yet it doesnt stop me from overclocking it. It takes me 1 week and i started to dissasemble it and not long then i started to overclock it. Pushing it from 200 MHz to 233 MHz . 233 MHz was the highest end processor available that time.. i even manage to get it boot at 264 MHz but it was not stable due to the chipset limitation that other component such as the PCI slots and Rams will be overclocked together.

My 2nd PC was bought when i got into college.. and indeed again i didnt stop overclocking.. from 700 MHz pentium 3 .. to 933 MHz pentium 3..

My 3rd PC was a Pentium 4 2.4C HT .. i bought this PC myself from the money i earn from my part time job. This was the best overclocking machine that i've got.. i was able to boot up to 3.3 GHz rock stable and 3.5 GHz .. not that stable due to the server chipset i guess.. should have buy a cheaper board to gain 3.6 GHz .. where by many ppl did with my current Processor.

Last night, after messing up with my P4, i thot i juz fried my GPU .. an ATI 9800 SE (256 bit) softmoded to 9800 Pro buckle up with a zalman 80D dual heat pipe heatsink fan. It just wont boot.. and after some clean up ... it was back booting healthily.. I dun remember why the heck did i bought this GPU .. mainly due to the reason Overclocking i guess.. because i was able to softmod it to 8 pipelines rather than 4. I still remember i once seek for a special tool to try HARDMOD it .. but no luck .. even pasar road .. our famous electronic street .. also cant find the tool. I must admit i seldom play games.. but then this GPU serves my brother well.. at least he is a heavy WC3 gamer .. thou WC3 requirement aint high..

Currently, my overclocking madness have been stop by my latest PC .. its not a Desktop .. its a lappie .. powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo .. a very famous CPU for its overclockability and with the latest 65nm technology.. Too bad .. u cant overclock a laptop.. i was wondering.. should i sell off my P4 .. and get the latest Celeron .. which is very cheap .. so that i can clock it like hell.. if it happens to blown up .. a Celeron only cost RM100 .. lolz ..

1st PC

Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz (233MHz)

128 MB EDO RAM (4x 32MB)

Asus SP97V (SiS 5598 Chipset)

4MB on Board Sis 5598 Display (1 ~4 MB shared)

Aztech modem & Sound (ISA bus) --(RIP)--

2.1GB Quantum BiGFoot --(RIP)--

24x Liteon CDROM

2nd PC

Intel Pentium III 700 MHz (933 MHz)

512MB SDRAM PC133 (2x 256MB)

Asus CUSL2 (Intel Solano 2 i815P)

32MB Asus Geforce 2 GTS

Creative Sound Blaste Live! Player

Altec Lancing ATP3

15GB Quantum

40x Liteon CDROM --(RIP)--

6x Aopen DVDROM

3rd PC

Intel Pentium 4 HT 2400 MHz (3300 MHz)

1024 MB DDRRAM DDR400 (2x 512MB)

Gigabyte 8IK1100 (Intel Canterwood i875P)

128MB 9800SE @ PRO (256 bit) PowerColor

160 GB Seagate (80 GB x2 RAID 0)

8x LG DVDRAM

32x CDRW LiTeon

7.1 Prodigy Soundcard

Logitech 5300 Speakers

4th PC

Intel Pentium III 600 MHz @ 500 MHz Speedstep

128 MB SDRAM

SONY SR9

12GB Toshiba

10.4" Display

(Its a mini laptop)

5th PC

Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66GHz)

1356MB DDR2 667MHz Ram (512MB + 1024MB)

13.3" Sony LCD

Sony MoBo (i945GM)

80GB Hitachi HDD

6x DVD Burner (Sony)

Model Number VGN-C13G