Age Range of extreme overclockers

[buildzoid]

19 as of few days ago. OCing since I was 15. I've used LN2 for I think 2 years now.

[FireKillerGR]

First oc (air) : 13

Dry ice : 14 or 15

Ln2: 15/16

 

So 6-7 years since my first subzero experience and 5-6 since ln2.

[newlife]

If you're too young to drink maybe you should wait because ocing is best with beer

 

I first started ocing back when I was 16 but didn't join hwbot till I was 19 and first went cold around 21 and ln2 around 22

[skulstation]

I am 37. Did join somware in 2009.

Firts cold ( dice ) some ware early 2010.

First ln2 whas whit alby and pj late in 2011.

Don't remember exactlie my first oc but i think it whas whit a abit bp-6 or vp-6. Yes first oc and buld was a dual cpu

[zeropluszero]

29, bought my first pot for ivy bridge.

save your money, come to computex, say you are your country's #1 overclocker, get really drunk and try not to puke on Christian Ney the next day.

[marc0053]

Nice thread!

I'm now 33 and started overclocking on air at 26. Quickly expanded into waterclooling at 28 and 1st LN2 experience at 30 with 780 ti kpe and 4930k which went horribly wrong...but I'm still here...lol

[Johnd0e]

im 25. started overclocking at 24(around december 2015). got right into watercooling and will soon be moving into LN2 hopefully before 2017 hits.

 

my first experiences were on 6700k and gtx 970's.

[5erveD]

34. Guess I am a little late with the overclocking stuff.

Started ln2 about lill more then a year ago. Started oc when the I7 lynnfield was introduced, say 2010/2011

Didn't know what I was doing for a long time

[Guest barbonenet]

38, i'm on computer since i was 6! I've started overclocking in 2000 first with water, then SS and after in 2013 LN2....

 

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[scannick]

41, starter OC in early 2015 on Haswell and 775, LN2 in late 2015

[TheGamingBarrel]

29, bought my first pot for ivy bridge.

say you are your country's #1 overclocker

 

Looking at the state of the UK Scene, I might actually be there soon

[Noxinite]

Looking at the state of the UK Scene, I might actually be there soon

 

[gavbon]

Looking at the state of the UK Scene, I might actually be there soon

 

You have to go through me first

 

 

Don't encourage him haha

[Alpi]

I'm 34. Started overclocking about 3 years earlier. Hadn't really cared about pc's that before but it became true love quickly. Started with 775 followed some newer and newer Intel platform. As I was able to see more and more from this world I want to go with the top oc-ers. I saw just the ammount of points. That was such a big mistake. Money and some other things is limiting badly. Than I had a pause. That was my turning point. I realize how much architecture, platform exists and I didn't know even one of them. That was the beginning of my story with overclocking I think. Started to buy newer and newer old (and cheap. :DDD ) hardvare. Had so much nice moments, so much freed and happy benching. And maybe I can say that I have some ddr1, lot of Amd platform, ddr2, older Intels experience for now. Less extreme, more Alpi !

[MetallicGR]

23 here, found hwbot in 2010, in my late 16s. I already knew bot but never did something extreme (cascade) till 2014 and then I didn't bother uploading the pathetic result hehe. It was a pentium4 630 if I remember correctly. Now I' m far better at it with lots of reading, testing and learning new stuff everyday while working full time in hwbox.gr as a senior editor. The coming years will be awesome so fingers crossed for the future.

[TheGamingBarrel]

You have to go through me first

 

 

 

Don't encourage him haha

 

How about we go and do an LN2 Day and see who gets most points? I think I have enough GPU's

[CAxVIPER]

22 did my first submission when I was 17 or 18 then stopped after a few runs because I didn't have the income to support this and school was more important.

[gubben]

65 dont remember when start OC , had a cascade build by overklokk , Ln2 first time for both me and Elmor think he was 15-16 that time.

[GreekPhantom]

23 here, found hwbot in 2010, in my late 16s. I already knew bot but never did something extreme (cascade) till 2014 and then I didn't bother uploading the pathetic result hehe. It was a pentium4 630 if I remember correctly. Now I' m far better at it with lots of reading, testing and learning new stuff everyday while working full time in hwbox.gr as a senior editor. The coming years will be awesome so fingers crossed for the future.

 

Hehehe then you met me and your oc career went horribly wrong <3

[TAGG]

I'm alot younger than you might think, when looking at the hardware I bench Started messing with computers when I was 15, found hwbot about two years ago first time LN2 was ROG camp 2016, first time LN2 on my own 2 Weeks ago with a 8GHz score first try

20 now and owner of a cascade, a single stage and some 2000 775 CPUs gone through my hands in the last two months alone...

[No1Spank]

I couldn't do overclocking as a job, it would do my sweed in after a few days. I personally like to get the most performance for the least amount of dollar with everything which is how I discovered overclocking.

Being a highly ranked overclocker proves in a round about way that you can build a computer that is faster than everyone elses because you know how to get the best out of the hardware. A typical PC at stock settings is garbage, a mediocre PC well set up can become better than the sum of it's parts.

I've stepped my game up a bit lately because I was getting flamed on YouTube for slating the Ryzen 7 when it came out (I wasn't impressed with mine), so I've bought a load of hardware to test and make sure I wasn't wrong.

 

You could become a pro hardware reviewer but then you will have to be familiar with current games and be able to look at things from the points of veiw of a variety of people. Ryzen for example performs pretty well out of the box but if you put it against a properly overclock FX CPU for me AMD's progress is less than impressive over the past half a decade mainly because the Ryzen doesn't gain that much overclocked due to the limited head room. Most reviewers don't know how to overclock properly so the results show the lesser Ryzen CPU's in a better light. They also have a habit of not running game tests in the most demanding scenarios, Fallout 4 for instance needs to be played around the Financial District of Boston to really hammer the frame rates down and test for smoothness. Memory and north bridge settings make a masive difference to gameplay so overclocking skills have real world use.

 

My favourite benchmark at the minute is UserBench as it takes into account background resources meaning that optimising the OS isn't too important, plus the results really do seem to translate well into what you can expect in real world use, in gaming anyway. Also it doesn't take half an hour to run like PCmark and the results page is more modern and detailed.