Back in 1998, I overclocked a 486DX2 66MHz to 80MHz.
Back in 2003 or 2004, I overclocked a 1280x1024 CRT monitor from 1994 to 2048x1536 resolution.
Back in 2006 or 2007, I overclocked a Pentium 4 motherboard to support CPUs beyond the listed max of 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
So, it only made sense, like who the fuck overclocks CRT monitors? It was about that time I picked my username. I’m still signed up with Yahoo with this username, if that site even still exists today 😂
Edit: The underscore is deliberate, it makes it a little confusing to verbally say my username, like “over under score clocks?”…
Yes. Well, the older ones anyways, before they got full digital phase locking anyways.
I had a dumb but rather high tech 15 inch CRT for it to have come from 1994. No smart logic though, just a few relays you had to trigger with certain frequencies. No error messages, no safety checks, the thing either accepted the signal or it didn’t. Or it could explode, that was the fun in trying, and yeah it actually worked and didn’t explode!
How did I do it? Well, by then I had an XP system and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. Wait, this was in late 2005 or early 2006 come to think of it…
Anyways, I checked all the details of the monitor’s supported frequencies, both horizontal and vertical. I found the max resolution, while compromising on the framerate, I used 25Hz interlaced to achieve that, with the Nvidia Control Center of the time…
Back in 1998, I overclocked a 486DX2 66MHz to 80MHz.
Back in 2003 or 2004, I overclocked a 1280x1024 CRT monitor from 1994 to 2048x1536 resolution.
Back in 2006 or 2007, I overclocked a Pentium 4 motherboard to support CPUs beyond the listed max of 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
So, it only made sense, like who the fuck overclocks CRT monitors? It was about that time I picked my username. I’m still signed up with Yahoo with this username, if that site even still exists today 😂
Edit: The underscore is deliberate, it makes it a little confusing to verbally say my username, like “over under score clocks?”…
wait holy crap what? you can overclock CRT monitors?
Yes. Well, the older ones anyways, before they got full digital phase locking anyways.
I had a dumb but rather high tech 15 inch CRT for it to have come from 1994. No smart logic though, just a few relays you had to trigger with certain frequencies. No error messages, no safety checks, the thing either accepted the signal or it didn’t. Or it could explode, that was the fun in trying, and yeah it actually worked and didn’t explode!
How did I do it? Well, by then I had an XP system and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. Wait, this was in late 2005 or early 2006 come to think of it…
Anyways, I checked all the details of the monitor’s supported frequencies, both horizontal and vertical. I found the max resolution, while compromising on the framerate, I used 25Hz interlaced to achieve that, with the Nvidia Control Center of the time…