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Kevin Karhan :verified:As <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GamersNexus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GamersNexus</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPE95_RnL_Q&t=14m47s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pointed out</a>: This is <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greedflation</a>!There is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPE95_RnL_Q&t=17m17s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">no other explaination</a> re: 42% above <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MSRP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSRP</a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPU</a>|s that ain't having hands-on customer support for extreme overclocking!<ul><li>Like those were absurd but one could at least justify the price with the added cost of having to basically pre-pay at least 1 hour (if not multiple hours) of labour for a spechalized technician that walks people through on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extreme</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/overclocking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overclocking</a>!</li></ul>

ltning<a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/overclocking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Overclocking</a> time! One of my favourite 286es is getting a makeover!This one has a weird chipset branded "Solutions", but it turns out it's really a bog-standard (but very cool!) C&T NEAT chipset. The board itself seems to be of the brand Cotek, but that's just going by the stickers on the BIOS and KBC. According to <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/theretroweb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheRetroWeb</a> however*, the brand is PCT - but no model name is to be found anywhere. The stock configuration of this board seems to be a 25MHz CPU with a 50MHz crystal driving it. So it's already a damned fast 286 - but there's no reason it can't go even faster!Well, long story a bit shorter: After some extremely clumsy soldering on my part, I was able to replace the main 50MHz crystal with the Any_Clk, a custom, variable clock generator from MiGron**.Turns out this machine is stable at 31.25MHz! Now if that doesn't take this 286 well into 386 performance territory, I don't know what will!See the beautiful close-up pictures in this post (details in the alt-texts), and look for benchmarks and a hint of drama in the follow-ups!<a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/hardwaremods" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardwaremods</a> #286 <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/needforspeed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#needforspeed</a><ul><li><a href="https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pct-unknown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pct-unknown</a> ** <a href="https://migronelectronics.bigcartel.com/product/any-clk-devices-for-ibm-xt-286-386-486-overclocking-underclocking" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://migronelectronics.bigcartel.com/product/any-clk-devices-for-ibm-xt-286-386-486-overclocking-underclocking</a></li></ul>

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