What's the worst lemon you've ever had?

[xDUCK]

CPU, motherboard, video, memory - it's all fair game. What is the WORST lemon (OC wise) you've ever had?

For me, it'd have to be my second NF7-S (rev 2). Wouldn't even do 200fsb, wouldn't run my 1700+ stably at 2Ghz. :stick: (even though it could do 2.5Ghz@1.85v on all other boards)

[skate2snow]

i only have one rig in my life for now, but im very very very sure i will never have a poorer CPU then this, it whoudn't do 3.2 whit my 2.8C:(:(:(:(. i have some very poor 3DMarks score whit that CPU, my VidCard can do way much pts then that

[Shane5578]

one of the 2.8ghz ES, it needed 1.75volts to make it 3ghz :stick:

[Holst]

Probably 8rda3+ rev1.. unstable at any speed... this was an "upgrade" from my 225fsb 8rda+

[Smokin_Joe]

My 1800 pally, needs 1.85V to run 1633mhz stable.

[xDUCK]

Originally posted by Shane5578
one of the 2.8ghz ES, it needed 1.75volts to make it 3ghz :stick:

:wierd: :banana4: :ROTF:

[Saffire]

I didn't own it, but I got to test a friend's 2500+, took 1.9v to get to 2ghz (not stable) (166x12)

[Drisler]

Barton 2500+....200 x 11 > took 1.95v and it still wasn't stable.
Geil PC3200 - nuff said..wouldn't even run 166Mhz.

[Silversink]

Worst lemon ever was a Be6-II that killed 2 cpu's right out of the box, killed a vendors cpu as well when he tested it.

Worst O/cing part I ever had was a 2.0 Williamette. I almost went AMD, but reality kicked in and I came to my senses :slobber:

[jmke]

XP1700+

max clock was 1520Mhz on 1.9v vcore :)

[Penti]

Originally posted by skate2snow
i only have one rig in my life for now, but im very very very sure i will never have a poorer CPU then this, it whoudn't do 3.2 whit my 2.8C:(:(:(:(. i have some very poor 3DMarks score whit that CPU, my VidCard can do way much pts then that

You can't expect more from a 9600pro. There are only 3 9600pros over 16k on the orb. So Much more you dont get.

[unrealneo]

XMS 3200 that had CH-6 chips.:mad:

204 2-3-3-6 max.:rolleyes:

also, my current 9600Pro, Hynix 3.6ns that o/c's 9MHz :stick: :(

[afireinside]

Lets check the list of almost everything:
1700+ that maxes 190 FSB locked multi
barton maxes at 2.2 with 2V
NF7-S rev 2 that maxes at 215
CH5 XMS PC3500 maxes at 205 FSB 2.9V uber high timings
Ti200 with 451mhz max on the ram while most others hit 500 or so

Cant say about my 1800s or 2100 because I found out it was my mobo and not the chip. Havent tried my 9800np yet either...

[thebove]

biggest lemon i've had is probably my PNY gf4ti4200 that wouldn't even do ti4400 speeds :rolleyes:

or maybe my pally 1800 that did 1.7 max, but that was when the pally was pretty new, so they weren't great overclockers to begin with.

[Bundles]

Either my mates XP2200 Tbred a i almost bought for a laugh, which wouldn't go stable at 2ghz even at 2v.

Or my 1gig Duron, 1128mhz @ 1.85v :D

[Kunaak]

I guess it would be my first unlocked CPU.
a palomino AGKGA 1800.
worst stepping there was according the people at the time.

it maxed out around 1.7 ghz.
didnt bother me too much, I learned how to get 224 on the FSB cause I couldn't OC, so I went for bandwidth alone.

I believe my first post here ever was a screenshot from that CPU, and the dude welcomed me here first.
strange how you remember the oddest things ;)

[Ragnarok]

has to be my Asus V9280S2, wouldnt even do 315 core stabilty on H2O

where as many of the other same cards do 350 stock

[Total Immortal]

intel celeron 2.2GHz, was told it was good OCer but stopped dead at 2.4 with lots volts, but can't realy complain, was free with mobo which i then sold for profit :)

also bad was my Athlon XP 2000+ Palmino which would only oc by 100 MHz b4 temps got silly (70+ 'c load).

[Pandrone]

My XP1700+ that maxes at 2150mhz whatever voltage i give it :( (some people say that it's a fairly good clock, but i want it to go higher)

[xDUCK]

Yeah, my current 9800 Pro cannot even do 410 core without artifacts... My old card could do 461/400 stock. :(

[Malves]

My third NF7. Wouldn't go above 215 stable.

[luihed]

Mine was definately my *8rda+...... wont do more than 185fsb at stock vdd and can only do 206fsb with 2v vdd........ thats what I get for frying an A7N8X that did 206fsb out of the box........

[EmineM]

my Sapphire 9800 XT that would oc about 20 MHZ

[shmaa]

my 9700 Pro does about 380 on the core and 330 on the mem... and then only if i got it in about -5 C air... after that it's all artifacts and 3dmark lockups. :(

[Kanavit]

the worst piece of computer hardware i 've ever got was the Radeon VE. it didn't have hardware T/L. so i couldn't play Citizen Kabuto.

[Nookie420]

either my Ti4600, cant even get the core to 320mhz, but the ram will do 740.

My current 8rda+ rev1.1 pisses me off, wount do anything over 192fsb stable, no matter what, needs volt mods.......

[LikwidKool]

Lets see.

There was my IWiLL XP333-R that would only do 177fsb. Then again it could have been the 1800+ pally that was in it that would need 2.0v to do 1.7ghz!

Or you could put in my ATI 9700pro that topped out at 350/330. After that was artifacts.

Now there is my current 9800pro that will only do 413 core without snow. Ram seems "decent" though at 360.

Otherwise I have had some decent stuff. My 8K3A and 8RDA+ were good runners as are my IC7 and p4c800-e. Also my OCZ pc3500 Plat LE is incredible.

[skate2snow]

Originally posted by Penti
You can't expect more from a 9600pro. There are only 3 9600pros over 16k on the orb. So Much more you dont get. Look my clock!!!!!!!! and look my CPU how its poor:(:(:(:( im pretty sure whit a good CPU i whould get at least 15.5K, AT LEAST!

[STEvil]

My 8RDA+.

1.93v VDD and it still wont do 180mhz dual channel.. single will work stable up to 215.

[benonmsn]

a new nf7 s that the ide controller came broke from the factory, a true power 430 with a 3.1 3.5rail, a ti4200 that wouldnt oc 15mhz on the core, a 2.8c that needed 1.725 to run 3.2

[Opteron]

my 1800+ pally done 1550mhz unstable at 1.85v :eek:

[sjohnson]

3 RMA's on a kr7a from newegg, only got it right 'cuz I finally rma'd to abit instead of da egg.

2 - DOA

1 - would only post at BIOS default. Change *any* setting and no POST. They made me pay return shipping every time. Stayed PO'd at newegg for quite a while.

[faruquehabib]

1800+ palomino with my kt333 soyo dragon and 1536mb kingmax pc3200...what a waste of, like, $500 that was. i didnt research anything . the next week, i found the sickness here and was reborn:D

[sKiTz0]

umm.... all of the tbredas that ive dealth with :stick:
the no-name 400w that just died one day.. found out that the solder that fixed the atx power connector to the pcb had all melted together :stick:
this pc2100 i have now.. will only do 148 at 2.8vdimm (suspect that its the centon stick with elixir chips.. other one is samsung)

[bigdawginva]

definitely my ABit BE6-II...couldn't get rid of it fast enough.

[ricjax99]

My barton :mad: needs 1.775v for 2.2GHz and wont prime over 2.39 GHz even tryed 1.9~2.25v vcore too :(

Asus A7V266E maxed at 150FSB the crucial PC2100 used with it managed 200MHz in my nforce 2, POFS Anus :mad:

Or theres my 9800Pro which artifacts over 430 core with Zalman & Fan, POFS!!!! :mad:

[DeBastaard]

MSI K7T 266Pro (or something like that), damn, that mobo sucked ass!

[The Stilt]

We found a winner:

Corsair PC3500C2 512MB w/ Winbond BH-5 chips.
With 3.2V failed to post over 218MHz 2-2-2-5 speeds on Asus P4P800 DLX. Identical stick ran just fine 235MHz 2-2-2-5 with same voltage :rolleyes:

[Cranox]

My first xp2600+ did only 2300mhz @ 2.1 vcore

[matt simis]

While I was getting my Thunderbird replaced I used a K6-3 450MHz. Max overclock was ... 475MHz. No matter the cooling or the volts, the K6-3s werent any good at overclocking (prolly all that cache).


Matt

[Pejsen]

My newly bought Lite-ON DVD-rom drive..

First i killed my own system installing it... and i mean everything, the only that wasnt broke was my CPU.

Then i installed it in my sister comp... and again everthing dead.

off course i dind't install on my sisters comp knowing that i probably would kill her system... and found out that later

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Must be the NF7 i have now, it wont even go to 210FSB without being unstable :/

[C0bra]

My MSI 648MAX mobo.. wouldent run stable at 134fsb and wouldent post over 145fsb...

[hatemi]

Maeby my old KT3 ultra. Last VIA chipset I will ever buy!!!(maeby :D ) and my NF7-S that maxed at 206! I got it to windows with 207 FSB once but after reboot it didnt get there anymore...

EDIT:some typos. maeby its better posting sober next time:D

Happy newyear everyone!

[Firelord-OCHW]

Tyan S420 or something SlotA mobo that died the day I got it (first PC ever!) from a BIOS flash whoops!

[JoeBar]

Gigabyte VRX-P mobo. Couldn't run my gf4 at all with it.
Athlon XP 2200. Terrible oc'er. Couldn't reach 2.0ghz... :p:

[xgman]

Gigabyte 8KNNXP

[Bra!nFreeZe^]

Hehe i guess its my old beloved powercolor 9500@9700 (without checkerboard effect) it did 450 on the core 1.725 V with a barton 2500 inabox cooler but the mem..infineon 3.6 ns ! damn i hated those! i wouldt even oc those

[Bra!nFreeZe^]

either my Ti4600, cant even get the core to 320mhz, but the ram will do 740.

Haha i had a TI4600 once as well it did 330mhz on the core with volt mod and peltier cooling! the vgpu was 1.9! :P and my mem did 750 right out of the box!

[Firelord-OCHW]

Suppose my old MSI 128MB Ti4200, damn picky bout which mobo it wanted to work in :( worked in my dads office rig but not my rig or my mates but did in my bosses :confused:

[[cTx]Philosophy]

Well i dont know if this a bad thing for u guys or not but it is for me..
Nearrk wouldnt do anything over 2.9 at 1.6 :

And also my newark didnt liek 2X1024 pdp 3200ll but with only one in she would purr right along at 2880 with 1.56 :)

[matt simis]

I cant belive you replied to a 2 year old thread! :stick:


Matt

[kappa2001]

My actual 3.0c processor. Won't go over 3.8ghz stable on prommy with 1.8v (1.75 real)

[kimandsally]

Some of this Corsair 1GB DDR XMS4400C25PT TwinX it wouldn't even do 276 MHz only the 275 it's rated to, bought some OCZ Rev 2 Platinum and 290MHz easy peasy.

[Korpse]

my 32000 CH - was good for 2.4Ghz then suddendly wasnt even stable @ 2.2Ghz ....
my current 6800GT - Locks up and artifacts @ and below stock....
my 3 other DFI mobos - I killed a fricking monster...one died on me and the other had broken mem slots
my 3700EB - Only good for 256Mhz 3-3-3-8
my endless amounts of UTT - Aint touching Winbond UTT ever again...

Pretty much my whole system at somepoint has been a dud

[Oden]

Definately the MSI Neo2 NForce 3 Ultra.... that sucked so f**ing bad!!!! Went throw like 5-6 rma:s, struggling with the "fans spin when you switch on your psu, but not bootable"... I hate MSI soooo much! They really suck!

[Sheik]

Powercolor 9700 Pro - 10 MHz overclock on the core and about NIL on the memory.

OCZ3700EB - OK in single channel, but won't even do stock speeds on any NF4 939 board I've tried :(

[massman]

first I had an kt333 mobo, so I bought a leadtek nf2 from a friend of mine ( I exspected great overclocks ;) )

result: mobo won't go past 200MHz. and I couldn't adjust the multiplier :(

what a waste of money :mad:

[Supertim0r]

OCZ VX 3200 + DDR Booster. Memory died in 3 days, the pot on the booster died in 2 days (now modded :D )

[x714n]

my p4 3.0 prescott cant go over 3.3ghz no matter how high i boost the vcore

[speed bump]

I havent had any dudes just some tht werent as good as others. My XP mobile did 2.2ghz at 1.625v and wouldn't 2.5ghz at 1.95v on air no mater what I did i did do it on water pretty well though.

[fatty]

My first DFI Ultra-D was fine one day dead the next I rma'd it they said it was fine got it home dead left it for a few months played with it and it's alive again??? :confused:

[Vapor]

Iwill P4R533-N i850 board....had a 3.06b in and I'd be unstable if I even tried to OC to 3.08GHz....that system wasn't meant for OCing though :shrug:

[Martijn]

Ehm, it's the P5LD2/820 combination I have atm. The maximum I can pump out of it is what you see in my sig, and at load it only is 55 degrees... :(


My graphics card is a lot better, though, 3.7k at 2005 (sig is not updated yet)

[massman]

I havent had any dudes just some tht werent as good as others. My XP mobile did 2.2ghz at 1.625v and wouldn't 2.5ghz at 1.95v on air no mater what I did i did do it on water pretty well though.

I know someone who had a XP-M that did 2.5Ghz. stable @ stock voltage, but even when he went to 2v, he couldn't get it stable higher than 2.5GHz.

I had bought a gf3 vanilla (gainward), the same day I put my watercooling on it, the same day I oc the vga. The day after the memory was broken :(

[SoF]

XP1700+

max clock was 1520Mhz on 1.9v vcore :)

^^ thats bad :slapass:

hmm definitly the DFI NFII Ultra Rev. B
First boot after setting up the rig - all ok
First time in bios - saving (stock settings, just disabled some onboard staph) ok
Second time in bios - wanted to increase FSB (JIHUB was tested up to 2,4GHZ) 215MHZ - save, reboot, 4 LEDS OF DEATH!!!
DFI support sended me a new bios chip, 2 reboots, 4 LEDS OF DEATH!!!
RMA, 2 Reboots, 4 LEDS OF DEATH!!!
New bios chip and for sale with this piece of sh*t....never had such a crappy thing anymore...DFI lost all my respect and I will never buy one again...

[afireinside]

OLD thread BUT

my MSI x800pro that does 640/607... with ram sinks, TWO fans blowing on the card, ice water on the core, and full mods. 1.8Vgpu 2.22Vdd 2.2Vddq. Talk about POS :(

And my old 3700+ diego that needed ice water and 1.9V to break 3ghz 1m without the IHS...

Other than that I've been good. MY BH5s rocked, my NF3 rig had a killer DTR and a nice clocking 6800 (runs 12x6 420/950 24/7 100% stable) and my DFI NF4 has worked out amazing.

[Leverpospade]

Well, I'm not sure which is my worst "lemon" ever, but it's either my P4 2,533 GHz which couldn't prime at even 2,85 GHz - at any v-core or my 9800 pro which wouldn't do anything over 400 MHz on the core. :fight:

[BrokenWall]

one of my Athlon XP 2200+, needed 1.8v to do 1.9Ghz, just for a 100Mhz overclock, and it would overheat at stock speeds all the time with the stock heatsink

[don_vercetti]

undoubtedly my 7800gt.

After a 6800nu that unlocked to 16x6 and overclocked to 440/980, i now have a 7800gt that can't even do 470 core without artifacting, and can't unlock. The memory is better, recing 1350mhz with 2.2v, but still nothing spectacular. Temps arebn't the problem (never even breaches 60c) so i guess either voltages or crap cooling on the PWM, but putting a fan over it doesn't help at all.

[HermS]

Worst lemon for me was my FX-55 clawhammer, it couldn't hold 2.8Ghz stable on air and struggles at 3.1Ghz under the prommie... It's really put me off paying top-dollar for CPU's anymore.

[Supertim0r]

Worst lemon for me was my FX-55 clawhammer, it couldn't hold 2.8Ghz stable on air and struggles at 3.1Ghz under the prommie... It's really put me off paying top-dollar for CPU's anymore.
hey !
how is your 148 clocking ?

[f00t]

mine would have to be a a7n8x i had. couldnt even get into windows at 180 after volt mods. you dont even wanna know how bad it was before vmods

[$ilver]

abit an8 ultra ... 390 mhz HTT but temp says 174°C in idle and bios settings are not saved .. so stock everytime ..

[massman]

mine would have to be a a7n8x i had. couldnt even get into windows at 180 after volt mods. you dont even wanna know how bad it was before vmods

ooo yes we do :stick:

[Quest For Speed]

I had a A7N8X ver 1.04 that would not do anything over 170 mhz stable.

[craig588]

A mechanical sample 3.2 EE. It did about 2.6GHz on R404 with 1.8V.

[Vapor]

A mechanical sample 3.2 EE. It did about 2.6GHz on R404 with 1.8V.IDK if I'd call that a lemon--that's expected from an MS! LOL, that's a good one to bring up though ;)

I'd like to throw my 7800GTX into the mix....as it doesn't respond to better cooling (clocks VERY well), but better cooling doesn't do jack for it. I need more volts for it I suppose.

[skate2snow]

one of my 5 9600PRO had to be underclocked of 3MHz to be able to run.... lol... Had to Vmod it to make it run over stock.... hehe

[berkut]

athlon 800 slot a

would work at ~840mhz, even when red hot but there was NO way it would work at 850. Even with -60C temps.

This was not a cache divider issue

[s0ulfly]

my first mobile barton 2600+ 2500mhz even w 2v :(

[Arkangyl]

maybe this 3000+ winny, I know it's sad but I have yet to really OC the thing :(

2.2ghz @ 1.42v seems low.. [arnt peeps getting 2.5ghz @ 1.4/1.45v?]
but I dunno how it will scale with volts; only time can tell...

the Neo2 might be lemonish; but like.. it's a lemon when eaten as it [260ish max fsb]; after some time with the grinder it's become a decent cup of lemonade [360ish new max fsb ;) ]

beyond that... My K7S5A ECS mobo for a 1600+ AXP.. that bastard just sucked... I dont think it even supported OCing till a couple dozen BIOS's later...

[Mr. Tinker]

I was gonna say my C1 3.06 P4, which did 3.3 semi-stable. But now I'd have to say my 7800gt which artifacted at stock. That's just called defective. What was the best program for testing artifacts?: "Out From Boneville."

[Yashu]

I had one celeron 300a that would not even do 450mhz stable.

[Stuperman]

my A8V deluxe is not great, ~250 Htt max, droops like mad and only has a agp/pci lock with an old beta bios.

[calcal]

dfi lp875

[illmatik]

The top of my hall of shame has to be the XP 2200 Tbred.. Couldnt manage to get even a 10% OC out of it.. sad sad chip. The 2100 I got to replace it was a champ though.

[Welz]

3200 Newcastle, not even stable @ 2.4ghz 1.6vcore... but then again, im just a noob : P

[jumanji969]

DFI Infinity motherboard. Wouldn't run dual channel memory at any speeds, wouldn't run single channel over 200mhz, and the ethernet dropped every once in a while.

[calcal]

Iwill P4R533-N i850 board....had a 3.06b in and I'd be unstable if I even tried to OC to 3.08GHz....that system wasn't meant for OCing though :shrug:
i have that board and it can oc my 2.0 to 2.4!! yay..
I still have it since feb 2004

my worse lemon was dfi lp 875
-cannot oc to 220 fsb when it did 247 stable on my ic7-max3
-cannot install os
-random freezing in windows(after a day with messing with it got it to install)
-does not boot everytime
-bios issues
-incredibly lower benchmark scores compared to other 875 chipsets

second lemon would prob be my a7n8x-e
-just very picky with memory
-bios is screwed up
-sucks in overclocking

[Vapor]

i have that board and it can oc my 2.0 to 2.4!! yay..
I still have it since feb 2004Got mine in 2002....it was the entire setup that was unstable, the value RDRAM, the board, and the PCI SATA controller that hated 34MHz :rolleyes:

The 3.06b would run at 1.45V all day though :toast:

[calcal]

that mobo still running?

[Trixxy]

the ram on this 7800GT only does 1090 (stock = 1050), even tho every other card on the planet seems to do at least 1200-1300 easy. :/

[STEvil]

every nf2 board i've ever touched... they just dont like 1.5+gb of ram :D

ati IGP320M.. 195mhz max on a cold day.. still good enough for ~20-30fps in hl2 though lol.

[InSanCen]

Gigabyte 7NF-RZ

Was an emergency board when my NF7 Died (Since got another, and an "S" that both do 250+ FSB!)

No Multi, FSB wouldn't hit 200... :frag: On a 1700 previously running 12.5x200, and now running 225*11.5 2-2-2-5...

You wouldn't believe how many new swearwords I invented... It's going in the crunching system that runs at stock...

[andL64]

damn Asus A8V

its said rev.2.0 but locks agp/pci dont work,
you can set fsb/htt in bios and clocks (multi) but forget it.....
the memory divider u can set is wrong.
it has got booting up problems with any core and any cooling,
i cant handle my old bh-5 and sucks with tccd, dunno why
no matter which bios
+ some issues i forgot, because i wont believe.... :stick:

thats a crappy piece of hardware!

seEn

[Jaco]

BFG 6800GT , a real POS
couldn't even overclock to ultra speeds stable
stock cooler sucked big time , 65°C idle :slapass:

Installed a watercooling block on that card , temps were much much better but still couldn't overclock to 400/1100 without lockups

The card died not much after I installed the waterblock (only few months old)

I get better 3d marks /framerates with my 6600GT extreme !

[[cTx]Philosophy]

Another good one for ya
this dam X23800 will onlyu do 2510 with 1.35 volts :)

only thing limiting me here is this dam arock mobo doesnt support higher vcores than the cpu is rated for..
Bigtoe where are you when we need ya

[crotale]

A really tired Palomino 1700+ that wouldn't even do 1600MHz with PAL8045 + Delta.

[Suffocation]

3000 winnie, max 2,1 ghz with 1.83 Vcore :/
My venice is doing better tho :p

[nutcase]

This Abit Mobo (cannot even remember the model#).. Got so fed up with it, I turned it into a 1/2 ATX Mobo :rolleyes:

[DaWaN]

My Asrock K7S8XE didn't even 201mhz FSB without uninstalling AGP driver :stick: Most other things i've bought did their job pretty well :)

[gallardo]

I really can't decide between my NF7 2.0 mainboard that will max out at a not-completely-stable 217 FSB with a modified BIOS with 2T but otherwise at more than 210 it would start to get nasty OR my Ti4200 that will crap out at more than 285/567, stable at 270/540.

Come to think about it, it's not that bad considering that oc my Ti4200 doesn't help me at all in anything and that FSB 210 on the NF7 was enough to get my lil' 1700+ to 2520MHz on a small ALX800 with a SCF2 fan... :D

[craig588]

I had one NF7-S that wouldn't break 198MHz. 198MHz was perfectly stable and 200MHz gave crashes in just seconds after getting Windows started. I couldn't clockgen any higher either.

[massman]

have you tested 205 ?

because some board don't like certain fsb's :)

[don_vercetti]

this thread makes me feel quite lucky...loads of people have had shocking nf7-s's, but the one and only i got reached 265mhz fsb one time.

[The Byter]

I have now two venice 3000+ E6 both will not do 2700 stable *even* on phase change...

my 6600gt will not do 630 core with TEC 80W and vcore @ 1.7...

very not good....

[craig588]

have you tested 205 ?

because some board don't like certain fsb's :)

That was years ago, I have no idea what happened to it.

[Vapor]

that mobo still running?Yeah, I still have it and it still works....that computer's been off for about 2 months now though.

[Oobi Doob]

my pdp 2gb LL kit wouldn't do over 201 on stock timings. couldn't get it over 205 regardless of timings and volts. :stick:

[caater]

bought mobile p4 from ebay when the mobile-craze started, it was 1.6 nw ES, 1.9ghz was already no go :x

[Welz]

This Abit Mobo (cannot even remember the model#).. Got so fed up with it, I turned it into a 1/2 ATX Mobo :rolleyes:

Holy, thats crazy

[IvanAndreevich]

9800 PRO which couldn't even do 400 MHz on the core :) Sold that POS within a week of getting it.

[harleybro]

I would say everything has done me right. The one part I had that didn't like whatsoever was an EVGA 7800GTX. W/ mods the mem would only hit 1420 when I was lucky. I had two others since and both did over 1450 unmodded without the stock cooler. I believe the last one hit 1460 w/ no ram sinks or mods. :)

[cirthix]

my 9700pro's ram goes from 310mhz stock to 315 lol

[WildKard]

Not really an overclocking lemon, just a LEMON in general...I was so psyched to get the new board as it promised such "incredible" overclocking/performance when rambus was still king

Asus P4T533 32bit Rambus board

Wanna know how high it went? 10mhz slower than stock, yup not even 133fsb it could only run stable at 123fsb

I had a big fight with the store I bought it from, they wouldnt even test it/return it, and about 3 months later Asus finally admitted to their foley and released a new revision of the board(which overclocked to 180mhz on rambus!)

[Gautam]

Ti4200 that couldn't do stock and a Dothan 740 that couldn't do 2.4ghz.

[wat0n]

my abit radeon 9550cdt

can do decent core clocks (415mhz), it got 3.6ns memory, but they cant do more than 245mhz

o well, it can do stock at least :slap:

my winnie 3000+ isnt a good clocker as well, im tryin to get it stable to 2.4ghz@1.6v... even though im usin box cooler

all my rams have been decent clockers tho (considering their price)

[steelballzz]

hi
i dont know wich one to choose if my x800 pro agp or the 3000 newcastle 754
the x800 could do 76000 aquamarks and after that 2 or 3 days to put it running again...default was ok....oc was crappy
my 3000 newcastle wont do 2221mhz...even with 1,7v..... :slapass: maxes at 2219......and not stable.... :soap: :shocked:

[2uantuM]

a64 3700 sd. Cant break 2.4.

[steelballzz]

a64 3700 sd. Cant break 2.4. :woot:


ouch....share the stepping with us plz

[goodcooper]

the athlon in my sig... totally unlocked... what a waste, tried 2.2ghz even with 2v it wouldn't stay stable in F@H

yet 2.1 w/ stock vcore is rock stable w/ decent cooling

[TMM]

a 2500+ barton that required 2.05v to do 2.2G stable....

[Formann]

Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI ... man I hate that motherboard.

[JuanFlaiter]

FX-55 couldn´t make over 2900mhz on water :mad:

(At least I could test it before buying it, so I didn´t buy it after a full night of testing)

[IvanAndreevich]

JuanFlaiter
That's bad? My friend had FX-53 which wouldn't do 2.6 GHz stable with water. I think that's bad.

[CRUSH-ER]

Celeron 333 that wouldn't do 500 like alot of them.

[OcX]

OCZ PC4200 Performance 3-4-4-8. <---I got suckered in by 266mhz :slap:

Dell 8200 Tower.

[SoddemFX]

In the K6-2 days a GA5AX which couldnt do any more than 100MHz FSB and 4 years ago a GF2 Pro which wouldnt allow the memory and core to exceed 215 and 225MHz respectively.

Tom

[SoF]

my 6600GT seems to be another canditate
560/1150MHZ will give some errors in 03er 3DMark.
550/1150MHZ as well but only very very few....
With a 30cm venitlator blowing the hell out of it :slapass:

I have to replace it asap ;)

[funkflix]

Hmmm.. let me think..

1. Leadtek Ti4200 64MB, craps out around 275/560MHz..

2. K6-2 400 who can't do 425MHz...

3. ... later something more :)

[Pisu87]

My old 9700PRO without the shim around the core couldn't get over 350 Mhz under VGA Silencer :slapass:
I sold it :D

[K.I.T.T.]

Probably my MoBo. Stupid i915 chipset. Wont do anything over 248 MHz FSB for more than 5 minutes without crashing!! :mad: :slapass:

Pile of steaming $H17 :stick:

[dicecca112]

my dual xeon setup, could never get it stable even at stock, and the board randomly crapped out on me, so I sold the lot

[FlyingHamster]

one of my 750mhz durons wouldnt oc to 1ghz, but the other 3 did :slapass:

[Nosfer@tu]

my Creative fx 5900 that did
400@501 mhz core
700@780 Mhz mem

--VOLT MOD--

400@617 Mhz Core :D
700@880 Mhz mem and LOTS OF STRIPES :p

So it was only the memory that sucked :)

[EZClock]

Worst clocking part: eVGA 6800Gt. This thing never did over 440/1.18 WITH bios modification (1.4v), and modified NV5 silencer. My temps were great just, a bad clocking card. For CPUs, I havn't gotten a bad Intel CPU yet:
2.6c > 3.6ghz @ 1.6v, 12 hr P95 stable (No errors) (Benchable @ 3.7)
3.2e SL7KC DO > 4.15ghz 12 Hour p95 stable (benchable @ 4.3)
Intel 650 > 4360mhz @ 12 hrs of P95 (benchable @ 4612mhz (Air) 12 Hour p95 stable @ 4850mhz under my Mach1, 5300mhz benchable.

[hixie]

Corsair XMS PC3200 CAS2. It can't run CAS2 at 400mhz and if i change it to CAS2.5 i can overclock it to 406mhz.

[Ugly n Grey]

Worst OCer I ever had was a ppro that wouldn't OC even 5Mhz.. drove me absolutely nuts, voltage, cooling nothing helped. I sold it and bought another... way to give up :stick:

[IvanAndreevich]

hixie
Oh yeah! I guess the KHX CH-5 chips that I had 2x256 PC3500 were the :banana::banana::banana::banana:tiest ever as well. Didn't like anything > 2.6V and didn't do even 5 MHz over stock @ 7-3-3-2. Piece of :banana::banana::banana::banana:!

[Gambit_2K]

MY current Winnie that wont do 2500 mhz unless I use a vcore of atleast 1.8v :stick:

[DriveEuro]

My X2 4400 I got on Thursday.

2nd Core of the CPU fails superpi, prime95 and F@H.
Though, the first core OCs to 2.6ghz with no problem.

[LenniZ]

My current X850XTPE's mem, 5mhz over stock and it artifacts :/

[politenessman]

my 300mhz p2, which on the abit bh6(first overclocking board made) did a whopping 308mhz.
my 500mhz p3 coppermine from step thermodynamics, had a tec epoxied to the chip, did around 570 when everyone else was getting 750mhz.
the 700mhz p3 coppermine i bought for my dad "check this out, these things all do better than 1100mhz!" then it maxed out at 850mhz, right before it died 20 minutes later
2200+ tbred "a" which i won at the amd show in brooklyn, which wasnt stable at default.
my first 64 bit mainboard, the first available i think. the incredible kv8 max3. i rma'd 4 of these boards in less than 10 weeks. abit ended up hot shipping me 2 or 3 of these that they never bothered to bill me for.
my first 3500 winny, barely did 2450.
my first 2 dfi ultra d's, i guess if you own 1 i dont have to go into this.
and i could go on and on if i included vid cards, psu's etc. been lucky with ram tho.

welcome to overclocker heaven

very truly yours,
politenessman


very truly yours,
politenessman

3800 x2 @ 290x10
512mbx2 ocz gold bh5 2-2-8-2 261mhz 1t
2xevga 7800t
dfi ultra d sli mod
600 powerstream

[JAWS]

I had a 1700+ AIRGA (I think) that was awful. w/ 2.2 volts it would maybe boot 1900MHz. I traded it in for a JIUHB 0310 1700+ that was the best chip I've ever owned. anyone remember those?

[gallardo]

Remember? I have one of those... from 1466MHz to 2,4GHz with just 1,8V! I maxed out around 2533MHz (1M stable) at "just" 2,1V but my cooling was awful (Thermalright ALX800+ TT SCF2)... for this kinda thing! :D

[Fixxxer]

I had an FX53 with extremely low batch number that was unstable at 2700MHz w/ lots of vcore. :stick:

[Gef]

I bought a P4 2.53B a looong time ago. Tried overclocking it, with only 1 FSB = unstable. Crancked up the volt = still unstable.

I didn't own that CPU for long. :stick:

[JoeBar]

I bought a P4 2.53B a looong time ago. Tried overclocking it, with only 1 FSB = unstable. Crancked up the volt = still unstable.

I didn't own that CPU for long. :stick:
I owned a P4 2.53 in the past too. It could only go up to 2.75ghz... :p:

[BigDov]

My 9800pro is a real dog, everything else is pretty decent.

[Xyus89]

My s754 +3000 nc cpu, wasn't superpi 1M stable @ 1M test..:( & MSI k8n neo platinuim had a htt issue, everything above 210HTT & 1:1 mem lock it would reboot when I was chatting/surfing but with gaming/stress test it was rock stable :confused:

but now I've got my s939 setup and it ownz :)

xyus

[madgravity34]

My lemon would by the PNY 6800gt AGP I bought when they first come out. Its currently in my younger brother's computer (my old one) but the max clocks it ever did with nv silencer and 1.4V was 415/1150. Now THATS bad considering most 6800gt's do 400/1100 stock vcore and mine wouldnt do past 385.

[2uantuM]

ouch....share the stepping with us plz

CABGE 0512MPMW

I've seen good clocks with that stepping, I guess this one just sucks.

[RaZz!]

my old athlon xp 2000+ (palomino) on a k7t266a pro mobo... stock clock: 1,66 ghz - overclocked: 1,72 ghz \o/
the memory (kingston ram) was only able to run at 138 mhz, because the mobo had a bug which "kills" the usb-ports with fsb higher than 138 mhz... had one suicide run with 145 mhz on the ram. windows crashed after a few minutes hrhahr...
this was definately the worst rig i've ever overlocked :P

[lemonlime]

I had an early 0404 Newcastle that wouldn't do 2.1GHz, even at 1.8V, I didn't keep it long.. Even the Sempon 2600+ I used in that same board afterwards smoked it.