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Welcome to the ancient world of Mr Clunky. Built out of spare parts in the middle of the 17th Century Mr Clunky has survived to this day with hardly any upgrades and no cleaning. It's got a desktop case, Pentium P3 450 on a gigabyte BX2000 mobo, 256MB Ram, a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI graphics card, DVD, CD-RW and 2 hard drives (20GB and 8.4GB). Plus a crappy sound card and modem + windows 98se. Despite its age it'll still run stuff like Flash mx, Dreamweaver 4, Paintshop Pro 7 all at the same time.
Being 4 years old I reckoned it could do with a bit of a service and maybe a little speed increase. The P3 450 should be an easy overclock to 504Mhz and the Voodoo 3 2000 should see 160Mhz or more. (Up from 143mhz). However Mr Clunky always ran pretty warm in stock form and those Voodoo 3 cards are known for being like mini ovens. I thinks to myself time for Mr Clunky to get fit, loose a few pounds and stop sweating so much.
Off comes the case…….
Right three things to do before I get started trying to overclock this car wreck. Get rid of the clutter and unwanted bits. Clean it up and install some proper cooling. So out come the loose hard drive (it's the little 8.4GB one) and the DVD. They generate a ton of heat and I hardly ever use either. Just stick to my trusty CD-RW for now. Off comes the floppy drive cable. It's 2 foot long and the connections on the motherboard and the drive are about 4 inches away from each other…. Who built this damm thing???? Oh yeah….me…..shut it.
The power supply comes off next. It was full of dust so I took the cover off and gave it a good clean with a brush. Next comes the cpu fan and heatsink. Both were cover in thick dust. The heatsink was nearly full of the stuff.
