chinny22 wrote on 2021-07-05, 09:17:

Yeh I don't get the point of overclocking anymore. I understand some people simply like the challenge and that's fine but the fact is you could simply get say a P4 based system for almost nothing and it'll be faster then even most extreme P3 overclock.

Stability is much more preferable in my book

I fully agree with this.

When I read about someone overclocking an expensive Voodoo card or a K6-3+ CPU, I just shake my head in disbelief. That hardware is already 20+ years old, and getting more and more difficult to find. Yet people risk damaging it for minor performance gains, which could be easily surpassed by using a slightly newer system.

aroneox wrote on 2021-07-03, 06:18:

Looking over the Coppermine/100 slot-1 CPUs, the difference in TDP between the 600mhz and the 800mhz is a smidge over 1 watt. I think that pretty acceptable for the speed bump between the two. The 850mhz does take it up a noticeable notch in TDP at 25.7 watt. And if I were still pursuing the lulz for absolute bananas and completely unnecessary amount of speed in this build, it looks like the last native slot-1/100 is the 1000mhz which is 29 watts, and I imagine that would start to get a bit toasty.
The 800mhz I think would have plenty of headroom juice to take on whatever was the bleeding edge of Win 98 gaming in the era. And if I want to nerd out and run specs with someone who cares, 800mhz is still a very respectable speed for the era.

There is correlation between TDP and current drawn from the VRM but they are not the same thing.
Here an interesting article on the subject.
http://duhvoodooman.com/powrleap/LFL/Slot-T_1.htm
with a link in it to:
https://www.roberthancock.com/dell/xpsrproc.htm

Re high-end Slot 1 cpu's - everything above 700MHz running at fsb 100 is hard to find.
And if you find a 1GHz/100 they tend to go for seriously inflated prices on Ebay. The last one I saw passing by (may 2021) came with a price tag of $350