Underclocking your Computer...

[Guest $iLk]

Not really sure if this is a joke or not...

[LostInSpace]

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Originally posted by $iLk:

Not really sure if this is a joke or not...

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I believe it. There's always someone experimenting with the PC by one means or another. Well the underclocking is nothing new well to me anyway. I've done that from time to time just to play some of my really older games. There's nothing like playing Wing commander 1,2,3 etc.. on a 2gigahertz system everything is at lightspeed. There's nothing like wathcing a squadron of kilrathi swarming around your sector as fast as flies....

[Epsilon 5]

I used to underclock my old K5-2 500 to 400mhz, but that was because my PSU wasn't powerful enough, not because I ENJOYED it

[Bandus]

I underclock every now and then to play old games as well....good times.

[Fractux]

I've got my old comp, a 1.4GHZ Athlon T-Bird underclocked, as it now just servers as a file server on the network.

I've got it running at 600Mhz on a 100Mhz FSB. It was a frying pan at 1.4 Ghz, and now it won't let off as much heat, which needs to be managed in the summer. And seeing as the fan on the northbridge died, best to slow down the FSB so it doesn't get too hot either.

Cheers!

[LostInSpace]

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Originally posted by Fractux:

I've got my old comp, a 1.4GHZ Athlon T-Bird underclocked, as it now just servers as a file server on the network.

I've got it running at 600Mhz on a 100Mhz FSB. It was a frying pan at 1.4 Ghz, and now it won't let off as much heat, which needs to be managed in the summer. And seeing as the fan on the northbridge died, best to slow down the FSB so it doesn't get too hot either.

Cheers!

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I had a Amdk6-233 mhz a while back that did the same thing you could fry an egg on the damn thing it got that hot and it wasn't even overclocked. Wonder if they just took a 166mhz and overclocked it themselves and sell it as 233.