[Kal-EL]

Looks like the Dream Team is now the PURE team over at the bot. Vince is picking up high fliyin overclockers left and right. Teams are scrambling to retain there best overclockers.

Looks like a war is brewing now. 600l dewars being ordered, quad core cpu's being handed out to team members, scheduled group bench sessions are being churned up. Ripples across the pond.

Interesting developements to say the least.

[ocgmj]

Interesting... maybe a bot war brewing?

[DrNip]

I saw them debating the name over at Xtreme. I also saw a him getting all the elites but then a couple 200 point straglers? One of them only has 60 somethin points. I can't call it. Whats the point in gettin all the elites? There won't be any competition. Doesn't sound like fun to me but to each their own.

[sofos1990]

haha H.O.T is still first so we don't worry

[Kal-EL]

PURE = 11k now Mr. H.O.T. lol, 5k more and H.O.T. is eating some PURE surf shorts.

[DrNip]

Proud to be #30 in the world myself!

[sofos1990]

I was just kidding before lol
For sure PURE is a very good team with very experienced overclockers
Everyone should be proud for himself!

[2chesapeakes]

Sounds to me like team that will be handed hand picked CPU's and GPU's to bench with. I know that all work hard to get where they are however I've said it before I am more impressed by someone with 400 to 600 points on all retail purchased HW than 1000 points on hand picked HW.

[rickss69]

Vince sent me some of his pots yesterday, but I will be staying put where I am. I am very proud to be a part of NBOC.

[3oh6]

Originally Posted by 2chesapeakes

Sounds to me like team that will be handed hand picked CPU's and GPU's to bench with. I know that all work hard to get where they are however I've said it before I am more impressed by someone with 400 to 600 points on all retail purchased HW than 1000 points on hand picked HW.

"handed" and "hand picked" don't go in the same sentence together. there is no such thing as being handed hand picked CPU's...except in the uber rare instaces of a couple Intel and AMD CPU's...but that is not what i am talking about. it is possible we will be binning CPU's for members who need them...but that process is far from simple or easy in anyway, and certainly won't be leakage screened CPU's from Intel, only one or two people in the world have ever gotten those, and Vince or anyone on our team certainly isn't one of them. i don't think i even want to explain what Andre does when he buys a stack of CPU's...definitely no lack of time consumption and headaches there. and they are all random retail samples.

this term of hand picked is pretty false in your mind. yes, some guys use hand picked hardware, but hand picked != binned and handed to them by a manu. manufacturers wouldn't know how to bin a GPU for cold if their life depended on it. hand picked means buying/receiving multiple pieces and binning yourself. again, not cheap, easy, or simple by any stretch of the imagination. even if you are sponsored and receive the hardware, the time and LN2, mods, etc... involved are a heavy cost

it is sometimes upsetting to see comments like this because of a lack of knowledge of how people really do things. i know it isn't your fault you don't actually understand what goes on behind the scenes of a top bencher, but i would still prefer you didn't make statements based on speculation from that lack of knowledge of what is really happening. starts rumors that aren't true, provides a false sense of knowledge, and makes you look bad to those that do know what is going on.

i am not trying to piss on someones corn flakes here, just provide info where there is clearly a lack of accurate information leading to skewed views on certain subjects.