Anybody falling for a 4chan post about anything deserves it, simply for using 4chan
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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I mean, we used to be able to unlock CPUs by drawing on it with pencil in the right spots...
We used to overclock them by setting the FSB speed and multiplier by drawing on them. It's crazy to me that they designed them that way with such an easily exploitable flaw,
It wasn't really even a 'flaw' or 'exploit'. It was more a matter of 'if your chip can handle it, go for it assuming you have good cooling and know what you're doing.
Everything was more or less running at a "safe" speed so that the largest number of chips would be stable at, though it was known to pretty much everone that you could easily overclock for a little more performance.
I mean, there were boards built specifically to overclock, but they were more spendy. Sometimes you could get a cheaper board to overclock with a trick.
It wasn't until overclocking became widespread enough that chipmakers would try to limit it to sell some chips as higher speed and premium pricing. That's when it started getting locked down.
Was a sweet time when you could buy a budget chip that was identical silicon to the faster chips and just tune it to get the same, if not better, performance for cheap.
I do miss that part of 4chan. Trolling the public like Apple Wave ment out could fast charge your phone in a microwave.
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I remember when it was popular to tell people who got those new-fangled PCI-E cards when they only had AGP slots was to just cut the extra little bit off so it fit properly.
I feel like you could do something like that (I mean make a joke) with how M.2 ssds fit in the motherboard. The last time I read a manual for a PC part was after I got one of those (via recommendation for my build) and was confused where to put it. 🤣
You mean that strange gum stick that supposedly can store 8TB of data for the price of a solid weekly payment?
Yeah I usually just chew those. They are gum after all, right?
Back in my day we put a bit of nail polish on a couple of contacts on the CPU slot to over-volt it ...
Ooh, are they filling their Fluid Under Chip Coolant Reservoir? Are they using basic ice or levelling up with the liquid bismuth or mercury amalgam?