[DrNip]

My goals now is way different than what they use to be. I use to shoot for being sponsored but that all changed when I had a kid. Now I am the overclock when I can type of guy. At 1st it was hard sitting back watching guys do what I use to do but after awhile I got use to it. Last month was the 1st month I truly got to overclock since September 2009! When the results were all in I was finally back to the same point status I was at in 2009. Felt great and hopefully I will get to do more of it in the future.

[OC Maximus]

Wow, where do I start.

Before overclocking I was pretty deep into drag racing. Pushing transmissions, engines and rear ends to total annihilation. Religiously modding my death trap drag rig to get any extra tenth of I second I could at the track. From suspension tweaking to weight distribution to EMU/PCM tuning I was into it all. Anything for that extra tenth and a better 60'. Drag racing consumed my life although I always put family first.

My daughter being born completely changed things for me. Less time in the garage and more time changing diapers. Eventually we moved out here to Hawaii where there no longer is a drag strip. Found myself twiddling my thumb with nothing to turn wrenches on. Having nothing to mod or race was driving me crazy. Idle hands suck and boy did I miss the smell of 110 octane burning in the wee hours of the morning.

Little less than a year ago a new Overclocker was born. With absolutely no knowledge of how a pc even worked I dove in head first. Met Kal during a Chroll live stream and the rest is history. Like drag racing, overclocking has now consumed most of my mind and time. Pushing HW to its limits with what tools I have on hand (air, water, dice) has grown into a great passion. Constantly studying specs, procedures, and tweaks from the best out there has helped me move forward considerably.

Joining OCA and meeting all of you has only multiplied my love for pushing hw. Couldn't ask for a better community to be a part of. An "Overclocking Brotherhood" of sorts

BTW, awesome thread Tu

[Kal-EL]

Hahahaha, I forgot that we met at the Chroll's livestream

[Splave]

This thread is front page material!

[kikicoco1334]

lol thanks, i am glad you guys think this way

[Neuromancer]

Excellent Thread Fu!!!!

+1 front page.

Can't disagree with anyone here on any of their ideas on OCing. Benching is so much fun, I wish I had more time for it. A lot of the guys here, just make time for it. Those are the men of the group, the ones in charge of their own life LOL.

OCM is awesome, and took to benching like a flea to a dog, sucking the blood out of it and jumping to the next dog. Went from novice to experienced SOOO fast.

Benching is for fun for sport and little e-peen. I don't have a ton of submissions, as I am always trying to get the Hardware up to do something great and end up having to sell shit off. ARGH.

Need to learn to set my sights a little lower. With Sandy Bridge I think I can do that.

But the underlying question is "Why Do I overclock?"

1) Because I have to. Not as cool as it sounds. I am a multiPC kind of guy and just can't afford to have the best stuff laying around. OCed my Ath 240 x2 to 3.5GHz (on less than VID) as my main system to make black ops play smoothly

2) Overclocking is also about learning the architecture. Overclockers are some of the greatest sources of information available for learning new architectures. Voltage adjustments etc, shows you where a portion of the device might fail early or be capable of much more than it is at stock. Research is key.

3) I can so I do. Generally my latest and greatest HW acquisitions do not become 24/7 PCs until I have something better to bench. When they do become desktop units, overclocking generally becomes about tweaking a system for best performance. Usually I undervolt and still push it

Benching is addictive. I do not compete at the high end, but enjoy striving to beat whoever is above me on the first bench. Or knowing the arch like I do, and how to tweak, maybe a few guys

Guys like Allen and them strive to make me make sure I do my best when I submit, Kal makes sure to apply the urging when he is online

I would like to thank everybody at OCA though. I was on a benching team before and it was not fun at all. OCA made benching fun and the community developed here is AWESOME!

[kikicoco1334]

that's awesome man!
i have just a little over 500 subs already but i am not even half of what you guys have hahaha

this is my first and my last overclocking team

btw Neuromancer what's your steam name?
we'll do some BO sometime

[Neuromancer]

I dont remember my steam name TBH. it rarely gets installed

When I have nothing to do I install it, that hasn't happened in a long time. I still dont MP though.

[kikicoco1334]

i was just looking around in my computer.. and then found this...
this is the first month me joined OCA

[Kal-EL]

They grow up sooooooOOooo fast!