Who inspired you to start overclocking?

[Massman]

Something I always wonder ... who are the people that are an inspiration for others to get into overclocking.

 

Post your list of maximum 3 global and local overclockers that inspired you to start this crazy hobby!

[$$Lionking$$]

Harshal > http://hwbot.org/community/user/harshal

[Antinomy]

falc, t0p_VD (local guys) and TiN. His article "born to crawl..." touched my heart.

 

But more I was interested by THG (yeah, they're Prommy and LN2 adventures) and overclockers.ru at that time.

[over@locker886]

TeamJapan

[crio]

hipro5

[triplu_z]

Monstru , Matose and Micutzu from Team Lab501

 

:cheers guys:

[M.Beier]

Massman ofcause ♥

Nah; Truth is, first just because it was possible, then my second build, souly to get highest 3Dmark2001SE in my country.

[K404]

Dazboots, Maverick_SG1 and MarkGee I think. CustomPC magazine and the BTO benchmark leaderboard is what got me going

[M.Beier]

M.Beier is what got me going

 

Oh you shouldnt, Im blushing here!

[Christian Ney]

Crysis (the game) : to overclock my gaming setup to run it with full settings, and I saw that overclocking was funny so I started HWBot.

Then

Turrican : to overclock every hardware I can

then

Massman : to do some weird score, like worst score possible

Edited December 21, 2010 by Christian Ney

[BenchBros]

My really first reason to start overcklocking was: more FPS in counterstrike

[Blue Storm]

guys from ExtraHardware.cz on Invex Digitex fair

[Turrican]

Crysis (the game) : to overclock my gaming setup to run it with full settings, and I saw that overclocking was funny so I started HWBot.

Then

Turrican : to overclock every hardware I can

then

massman : to do some weird score, like worst score possible

 

i was inspired by my 486 system in the middle of the 90s because it was too slow to play newer games back then.

so i just started to overclock it.

[Hiwa]

zilla i learn modification and hw testing from him

qballe i learn how to mount pot and how to go crazy from him

leghorn the best of the best i ever seen in italy and europe, i learn a lot of things from him can't say how many

[seraphs]

Vivi -> http://hwbot.org/community/user/vivi

wish he would start clocking again

[weqwer]

tonyspanos and hipro5!

[Harshal]

It's going to be "Team Japan" and "Shamino".

I do respect James, Dave, Charles and Vince for their straight forwardness!!

 

above names are for "extreme OC"!

 

else in '99 it was pure need for speed aka higher FPS and faster renderings

Edited December 20, 2010 by harshal
addition

[TaPaKaH]

general: my classmates ... was cool having more MHZ than them back in 1999-2000

extreme: THG videos on singlestage/LN2 in 2002-2003

[DEVILEK]

No one, I just start for fun and cannot stop

 

Now all hw masters ; getting every point and cup is one of the best game

[Turrican]

hehe chris, i was in the c³ forum back then as well.

[Maxi]

macci & Oppainter

[mr.paco]

Shrimpbrime, Optytrooper & MrScott with my veryfirst OC and then the whole gang @ ClassicPlatforms who showed me the true meaning of TEAM and what a blast benchmarking is...

Never looked back since then...

[sumonpathak]

http://hwbot.org/community/user/thebanik

 

and

http://hwbot.org/community/user/syedthedevil

[Calathea]

I bought my first computer from elmor, asus p5k and overclocked celeron d 420. Built a homemade water cooling system really fast and I guess that's when I first got interested in OC. That I would abuse my hardware with ln2 never crossed my mind, but things change

[Mean Machine]

crotale got me started, I'd say. Beier is what made me quit.

Edited November 1, 2012 by Mean Machine