Hello

[SoddemFX]

Hey guys,

 

It's been ages since I had any real interest in computers but over the last couple of weeks I built a PC (so utterly boring it's not worth the oxygen describing) and did a bit of reading on the newer stuff. It got be thinking about the modifications and cooling stuff I used to do.

 

It seems like everything has died a bit of a death...? Do people still make phase change coolers? I couldn't see much on the web, the UK forums as I remember are non-existant and the rest of the world is pretty quiet..?

 

Do people still do modifications to motherboards and graphics cards?

 

I had to clear a lot of my stuff out several years ago but I couldn't bare to part company with my favorite cascade and a few single stages, apart from the insulation being eaten by mice they're still holding pressure and in operable condition. One day I'd like to have a play again, probably with something as equally obsolete and archaic as I always used to.

 

Anyway, glad one place is still going and I hope you're all well, I still see a few names I recognise

 

Tom

[Massman]

Hey SoddemFX! Always drooled over your GeForce 3 clocks

[K404]

TOM!

 

Things have changed for sure, but pepople are still around

[SoddemFX]

Thanks guys,

 

I used to love those GF3's, I remember that at one time me and Sparky had the #1's for the GF3, Ti200 and Ti500 he he! Those things loved the cold

 

What's happened to the extreme overclocking? It seems much less popular than it did, not as many people hacking around with stuff for fun compared to what there used to be..?

 

I was speaking to a friend who's into his PC gaming a few weeks ago who said that you can only overclock with -K chips and high end expensive motherboards now - surely that can't be right? Has anyone tried hacking something together like a H110 with an external diff. clock gen like we used to do with turbo PLL's K7S5A and P4T533's?

 

//found some pictures of my old k7s5a, brings back memories

 

Tom

Edited November 8, 2016 by SoddemFX

[Massman]

It's pretty much true. Non-K CPU overclocking was only possible on Skylake because of a microcode exploit and it had very nasty consequences (no AVX, no IGP). Since Sandy Bridge, that's the way overclocking is.

 

H- and B- chipsets have been unlocked by vendors for some brief moments in time, but all the "good" overclocking boards are Z-based.

[Jumper118]

Hey guys,

 

It's been ages since I had any real interest in computers but over the last couple of weeks I built a PC (so utterly boring it's not worth the oxygen describing) and did a bit of reading on the newer stuff. It got be thinking about the modifications and cooling stuff I used to do.

 

It seems like everything has died a bit of a death...? Do people still make phase change coolers? I couldn't see much on the web, the UK forums as I remember are non-existant and the rest of the world is pretty quiet..?

 

Do people still do modifications to motherboards and graphics cards?

 

I had to clear a lot of my stuff out several years ago but I couldn't bare to part company with my favorite cascade and a few single stages, apart from the insulation being eaten by mice they're still holding pressure and in operable condition. One day I'd like to have a play again, probably with something as equally obsolete and archaic as I always used to.

 

Anyway, glad one place is still going and I hope you're all well, I still see a few names I recognise

 

Tom

the uk exploded massively in 2015 and disappeared just as fast in early 2016 i am hoping it picks up again in 2017 but we will have to see.