Underclocking becomes latest computer craze---

[thekingofpain]

Hmmm---check it out:
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/07/underclocking.html
Is there a prize for the LOWEST 3Dmark results?

[Bob The Great]

time to take those old 300Mhz Celeron A's out of the closet

[poopeyhed2]

LMAO that's a great article
I like:

One gaming clan of underclockers, The TurTle Posse, claims to have never won a match. Founding member Kyle Harding said "No wins and 457 losses. We're proud of that and our 'dial-up only' requirement. Here's how our games usually go: the other team kills us and like five minutes later we find out we're dead. I get like ten frames per minute. That's frustrating as all hell, but that's what underclocking is all about."

And

...Some underclockers reported boot up times in the several hour range

Great find TKOP.

[John Prophet]

Reminds me of the hand me down 486DX2 that I started on, with dial up and maybe 16m ram.

If I was attempting to chat with a single girl, by the time my chat got there...she was married with two kids!

I sent one girl a picture of my...by the time it got there it was a picture of my dad!

JP

I wonder how low you'd have to clock a 1700+ before it didn't need a fan on th heatsink? It could be a good thing for ultra quiet machines. 1700+s are cheap.

[tony_j15]

LMAO Thats what happens. Some people get real good, and the others cant stand it. So they go backwords to look cool. Such is our wonderful world of opposites.

[agathodaimon]

hehehe, I don't know if I could tolerate going that slow... ugh

Did you check out the other articles on that site? The ones about the Overclocked Jesus & the Overclocked electrical system on the house???

[Scott Tiger]

Originally posted by prexaspes
I wonder how low you'd have to clock a 1700+ before it didn't need a fan on th heatsink? It could be a good thing for ultra quiet machines. 1700+s are cheap.

I've actualy thought about this. I'd still have a really large heatsink and a large low rpm fan mounted to it (that combo should be plenty quiet) and then set the processor to run a the 200mhz fsb speed instead of 266. That should run cool and quiet.

Many people underclock cheap Athlons to sub-1GHz levels for use in home theater PC systems. You will likely still need a fan on the heatsink, though rewiring it to 5v for sub-1000rpm rotation will effectively kill most audiable noise.

Robert Richmond

[dunbar]

including a mod chip that will slow down a hard drive from 7200 RPMs to 500 RPMs.

ROFL!