The Great Texas Overclocking Competition
by Wesley Fink on March 9, 2005 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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The equipment required to reach this performance pinnacle is the kind of stuff that most of us will never use. However, there are enthusiasts out there who live for the next breakthrough in Cascade cooling, and seeing how these extreme overclockers reach these incredible overclocks is a lesson in itself.
So, how extreme is extreme with these three overclocking legends? Try ATI X850 GPU clock rates of 800MHz to 850MHz, X850 memory at 680MHz to 700MHz, and the FX55 running very near at 4GHz (from a default of 2.6GHz). Fugger’s goal was 4GHz during the weekend. He didn’t reach it, but he came very close.
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OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
#9Well as far as the competition goes, nobody won. We weren’t having much luck that day. Although, I did let the ATI Tech John Bruno play with my rig for a while and he actually came up with the highest score of the day. :-)
And yes this is the real OPP.
HardwareD00d - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
lol @ 60wned!!11oneone
NesuD - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
Have we just been blessed with a visit from an Extememe Overclocking legend? If you are the real OPPAINTER my hats off to you. I have followed your extreme over clocking achievements over at futuremark for some time now and I must say they are nothing short of amazing. Maybe you should consider being a guest contributer to Anandtech. So who actually won the competition anyway?Wesley Fink - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
#3 - . . . and I just thought it was a blatant ad for ATI, since everyone is wearing ATI shirts and there isn't even a picture of the OCZ booth. :-) OCZ was an event sponsor, like ATI, Abit, AMD, and others, which were also mentioned prominently.OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
A wedding band doesn’t mean a thing. I’ve been married and I can tell you I had more fun with women before and after my marriage.Questar - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
No wedding rings on anybody in those pictures.Somebody should tell these guys that girls can be fun too.
pio!pio! - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/shows/2005/tex..."OPPainter spent a good deal of time on camera explaining extreme overclocking. Here, he is talking about his current records at FutureMark to an audience who are astounded by the performance numbers that they are hearing and seeing for themselves at the overclocking competition."
In actuality:
"Why did my boyfriend drag me to this? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
ajmiles - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
First page, the picture of the ATI card, the caption reads 500MB version as opposed to 512MB :).EyeSpy - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
Another great OCZ advertisement! Keep up the blatant bias!ES
suryad - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link
Couldnt have said it better Budman. That is very impressive. Wow! I cant believe the performance one would get with an FX running @ 4 GHz!!!!