army ranger
the seller actually went on these forums and started laughing he said there kids that overclocked 3-4 cpus and thinks they know it all "on the thread i created".
1983 is when overclocking started and it was done by clone vendors like amd that is what started it was the clone proccessors
1984 was when the first consumer overclocking started but back then it made apps and esp games run faster sometimes too fast...
next was the 286, But consumer overclocking was rare and mostly still done by the chip manufacturers.
Still at this time consumer ocing was limited and mostly done by cpu manufactoring companys competing for speed and consumers dollars.
1986-1989 is when overclocking startes to pick up with the 386 on the consumer lvl because we finally where given access to set the FSB/Multipliers/IRQ's with jumpers/switches on our motherboards....
1989 the 486 where ocing started to get a little more popular and with the game DOOM i remember getting performance boost due to overclocking, the want of a sound card to not hear my pc speaker. I remember overclocking and my dad getting pissed with every board I killed. Then the 486DX's came around ohh now those where fun to overclock.
96/97ish I remember overclocking, killing our packard smell computer my dad getting angry only to have a smile on his face when we would get an upgraded motherboard and an even faster 486DX4 100mhz was the last one we had
Then the 90's brought a whole new line of toys to overclock and play with but it was still a very very small few that would overclock mostly those who wanted to play games at a higher fps because we could not get anything better. I didnt overclock much during the p2 erra, I did overclock during the pentium 3 erra some how some online pc vendor accidently mailed me a new pentium 3 i think 1ghz I was in heaven returned the amd tbird I had and the mobo and got an intel base motherboard and would play around. I was proud of my 110mhz+ overclock=) I remember having to get some special motherboard jut to have options to overclock as well... But after this the overclocking itch left me for other itnerest at hand still was interested but not so much afterwards.
97 and onward is the golden time of the overclocker god I remember the cryo something pcs basically a gian phase change/ac computer that the case and the unit cost 1000-3000 wanted one so bad. The Ethusiast market was getting alot bigger.
I didnt have time to overclock much with my p4 systems i had and my amd tbird and k6 could only squeez 100mhz out of it so I didnt really overclock again untill the core 2 duos/core 2 quads, when I had time to go after something I liked doing again. The years of the k6-tbrid-p4 was too busy with football, graphic design, the military, and chasing women oh i forgot to mention raves!=)
But here we are the year now is 2010 They guy said 25 years hmmm that would put in in the time frame of 1985 when he started and back then it was a pain for a consumer to overclock, the only way he was an overclocker back then he would have to be rich or he was one of the engineers at Amd/Intel/IBM or one of the small companys IBM/Intel sucked up at some point possibly Cyrix but not sure exactly when that company came out... and if that is the case he would not be on ebay putting up bad photoshoppped pictures on ebay claiming a cpu in the graphs is some rare extreme cpu when it reality its an i7 920. I would not suggest anyone buying from the guy due to his dishonesty as shown to the army ranger guy, and the guys ebay posting. If the guy was really honest and upfront he would not be putting such misleading graphs/pics up on ebay. There is a market for this but doing it in this manner tbh is just shady and wrong. At this point in my life I would not mind not having to do my research and possibly having to travel or find someone i now in X location that has the cpu I want, would glady pay 50-100 bucks extra to someone who did thier homework tested it out first then sold it at a profit for thier time spent tracking it down, and testing it to give me a baseline idea of what it can do on average on a motherboard. But how this guy is doing it in that ebay post is wrong...