I Start Overclocking at 2005/06. To beat the boredom i overclock a Geforce 4 or Geforce 6 with the ATI Tool. :-) A little bit later i built a real OC-System with DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D, Opteron 144 and Geforce 6600GT. My first Benchmark was 3DMark06... since 2006 i bench each new System to see how many Points i get. And the real beginning and cause for benching on HWbot was 2009, because Oliver "Fr3ak" starts a call in PC Games Hardware. Now i am out of pocket, because i blow out the Money for a lot of useless hardware. ;-)