Is overclocking illegal

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Markfw

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Originally posted by: MADMAX23
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
From his previous posts he has overclocked in the past "I was the first human being to overclock" and he also talks alot about instability and crashing and smoke coming out of the computer.

My guess is that he overclocked without knowing what the hell he was doing and fried a system years ago, and he was so traumatized by the experience that he has demonized overclocking. Otherwize he would have to admit to himself that he killed his own rig

Yeah, I think you are right. He fried his PC and that traumatized him.

That also shows his stupidity level. I OC'ed my 4.77 mhz 8088 to 7.16 ! Then my IBM PC AT 6mhz to 9.16 ! Both of those here in the mid 1980's WAY before a 133 mhz AMD chip.... I am sure there are people that OC'ed something before me !
 

6000SUX

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Originally posted by: ProviaFan
If overclocking is illegal, point me to the laws that state it, and show me the lawsuits filed against average folks (or system builders who overclock and state so explicitly)

The law is the only thing the OP asks about. Prosecution details have nothing to do with the illegality of an action.
 

Quentin

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Originally posted by: Markfw900
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That also shows his stupidity level. I OC'ed my 4.77 mhz 8088 to 7.16 ! Then my IBM PC AT 6mhz to 9.16 ! Both of those here in the mid 1980's WAY before a 133 mhz AMD chip.... I am sure there are people that OC'ed something before me !

About the same time I overclocked my AMD 8087 8MHz coprocessor to 10MHz in a Turbo 10 XT clone. My first AMD OC!
 

Brian23

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Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".
 

Amplifier

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Originally posted by: Brian23
Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".

I remember those . I had a computer that had a display to show the speed the CPU was at... 30mhz if I remember .
 

Markfw

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Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: Brian23
Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".

I remember those . I had a computer that had a display to show the speed the CPU was at... 30mhz if I remember .

Should have been 33 mhz.... 8 and 33 !
 

JBird7986

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Oh yeah! I remember those...it was wierd. The only system that I ever had the thing on was the first computer owned by my family:

100MHz Pentium
16MB RAM
1.2GB HDD
4x CD-ROM
3.5" Floppy
5.25" Floppy
14.4kbps modem...

That thing was a rocket in its time (1994).
 

PhlashFoto

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I'm afraid the FBI and Secret Service are gonna bust me in the middle of the night and close down my overclocking crime ring. :roll:
 

clarkey01

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Originally posted by: ELopes580
I'm afraid the FBI and Secret Service are gonna bust me in the middle of the night and close down my overclocking crime ring. :roll:

Just tell them it overclocked itself
 

dmcowen674

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Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: Brian23
Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".

I remember those . I had a computer that had a display to show the speed the CPU was at... 30mhz if I remember .

First computer I tinkered with was Motorola based at 1 Mhz.

Hitachi came out with a pin for pin compatible chip that could run at either 1 Mhz or 2 Mhz.

I dropped the Hitachi chip in and changed the Crystal for it to run at 2 Mhz.

This was 1982. The Computer was from Radio Shack, came with 16K Ram which I kept upgrading using chips, perfboard and wire wrap. Went to 64K, then 128K, 256K and finally 1 Meg. Replaced cassette drive with Seagate 10 Meg hard drive after I wrote my own BIOS with assembly language. Made 7 different zones for programs to run in memory so could run 6 programs at the same time.

Those were the days.
 

thanasi

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: Brian23
Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".

I remember those . I had a computer that had a display to show the speed the CPU was at... 30mhz if I remember .

First computer I tinkered with was Motorola based at 1 Mhz.

Hitachi came out with a pin for pin compatible chip that could run at either 1 Mhz or 2 Mhz.

I dropped the Hitachi chip in and changed the Crystal for it to run at 2 Mhz.

This was 1982. The Computer was from Radio Shack, came with 16K Ram which I kept upgrading using chips, perfboard and wire wrap. Went to 64K, then 128K, 256K and finally 1 Meg. Replaced cassette drive with Seagate 10 Meg hard drive after I wrote my own BIOS with assembly language. Made 7 different zones for programs to run in memory so could run 6 programs at the same time.

Those were the days.


DAMB
 

GuitarDaddy

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Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Amplifier
Originally posted by: Brian23
Remember when AT computers had the TURBO button on the front that would OC your computer when you pressed it? I used to press that thing all the time. It was my "feel good button".

I remember those . I had a computer that had a display to show the speed the CPU was at... 30mhz if I remember .

First computer I tinkered with was Motorola based at 1 Mhz.

Hitachi came out with a pin for pin compatible chip that could run at either 1 Mhz or 2 Mhz.

I dropped the Hitachi chip in and changed the Crystal for it to run at 2 Mhz.

This was 1982. The Computer was from Radio Shack, came with 16K Ram which I kept upgrading using chips, perfboard and wire wrap. Went to 64K, then 128K, 256K and finally 1 Meg. Replaced cassette drive with Seagate 10 Meg hard drive after I wrote my own BIOS with assembly language. Made 7 different zones for programs to run in memory so could run 6 programs at the same time.

Those were the days.


Someone here is as old as I am I remember those days, seems like a lifetime ago now.

 

CrispyFried

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I remember the original IBM ATs had a socketed crystal.. just drop in a 10 or 12 Mhz and away you go. They soldered them in after a while

Turbo buttons were great. I wish cases still had them lol
 

Markfw

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Someone here is as old as I am I remember those days, seems like a lifetime ago now.

Well I graduated HS in 1972, if that tells you anything... I probably got you beat ! Any my first work PC had 8k memory and a tape driver to read the programs and data. First time I didn;t have to use punch cards like in college.
 

Markfw

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Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Yeah you got me by a few, I graduated HS in 75'. You really are old

Actually just a kid compared to my data at 82. He bicycles 10 miles every day !
And thanks for the vote of confidence
 

GuitarDaddy

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My dad turns 80 this year and he still plays some Golf, but he has decided to sell his bass boat because he says he's too old to be out on the lake by himself and I never have time to go with him anymore
 

Hurricane Andrew

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Originally posted by: Amplifier
It is not only illegal, but unethical to overclock a CPU. If you paid for a 1.8ghz processor and get 2.6ghz out of it you are stealing plain and simple.

So if you go to a grocery store and buy flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, eggs, and chocolate chips, and end up making chocolate chip cookies, that's illegal too then, since you didn't pay for chocolate chip cookies?
 

ProviaFan

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Originally posted by: Hurricane Andrew
Originally posted by: Amplifier
It is not only illegal, but unethical to overclock a CPU. If you paid for a 1.8ghz processor and get 2.6ghz out of it you are stealing plain and simple.
So if you go to a grocery store and buy flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, eggs, and chocolate chips, and end up making chocolate chip cookies, that's illegal too then, since you didn't pay for chocolate chip cookies?
Wow, the trolls are trolling on a common subject lately. Photographers may see a related issue in this thread over at DPReview (I suggest reading a few posts just for the humor).
 

Avalon

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What, Robcur didn't die of stupidity 6 months ago last time he came into this forum?

 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: Hurricane Andrew
Originally posted by: Amplifier
It is not only illegal, but unethical to overclock a CPU. If you paid for a 1.8ghz processor and get 2.6ghz out of it you are stealing plain and simple.

So if you go to a grocery store and buy flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, eggs, and chocolate chips, and end up making chocolate chip cookies, that's illegal too then, since you didn't pay for chocolate chip cookies?



Yeah, but it's not a normal offense - that counts as an act of terrorism. New law. You probably haven't heard about it. They'll be taking you to the tribunal tonight.
 

Quentin

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The Commodore 64 and Atari 800 were 1MHz and they SURE didn't have a Turbo button! 6510/6502: the "good ol' days"!
 

Hurricane Andrew

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The Commodore 64 rocked!!! My neighbor had an Atari 800, and I was jealous... Ahhh.... the good ole' days....
 
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