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The Great Texas Overclocking Competition

 by Wesley Fink on March 9, 2005 12:00 PM EST
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You can share your overclock results with friends and in Forums, but for the most part, overclocking is a solitary pursuit. ATI’s plan to bring all these world-renowned overclockers together for an Overclocking Competition was a great idea. It was also a great way to showcase to the world that ATI is serious about the AMD chipset market.

Fugger, Macci, and OPPainter didn’t break any new records in Dallas, but we suspect that a few may fall when they return to Las Vegas, Finland, and California.

The Overclocking Competition featured possibilities, and the extremes that serious end-users will go to just to own a world record. These overclockers were like a group of rocket car builders out to break the land-speed record. Anything goes and the methods are almost as much mystical as they are science.

But just watching these extreme overclockers work gave all of us attending a lot of insight into ways to push our own systems a little further. Most of our readers are more like stock car drivers, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t learn something from those who push the envelope to the very edge.

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  • OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    #9
    Well 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 @ 6

    0wned!!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!!!!
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