LN2 memories of HWBOT members

[flanker]

Guys, are u remember at your first LN2 overclocking? There will be many oldschool guys and I would like to see some shared things, photos, funny stuffs etc

 

propably 2010 year

 

I found few photos of my second LN2 experience. I was there with few friends from Czech hardware forum, no one of us had experience with LN2 OC and we had also 3 daily "highend" computers cooled by aircooling.

 

It was fun, bad I did so many mistakes... At isolation setup, at fans (In reality it was intake airflow directly to the board , no outtake airflow) First experience with coldbug (WTF is it, I thought that time, very bad control of CB issues)

 

 

 

But overall, it was fun and I saw in my hands few 6 GHz runs at Phenom II and crazy scores with 980X also.

 

Edited February 1, 2017 by flanker

[der8auer]

I think my first time with LN2 was during an Awardfabrik session which I think was around 2007/2008.

 

 

 

 

 

No_Name (Michael) was a great guy and a good teacher

 

 

 

 

My first LN2 rig with my first LN2 container. I'm not sure but I think it was E4300 and 8800 GTS in SLI

 

[Strong Island]

I cant believe my first time was 2014, it seems so much longer, it's basically when I really started overclocking. I like to pretend I have been doing it for a long time but not really.

 

These are my first and second sessions 780 ti kpe, with cpu on water just because I really only cared about benching the gpu to see how high I could get the clocks to go. Had just heard about hwbot in 2014.

 

Edited February 1, 2017 by Strong Island

[Leeghoofd]

Way back in 2009 I met lord Massman and Pt1t at the Gigabyte 2009 qualifiers... Battling it out with the I7 920 CPUs versus Stummerwinter and Spllman

 

 

Tom Cruise way before he joined Scientology

 

 

The magic Besi box of the Swiss Cheese team

 

 

Fear the German wrath or just his knife

[TaPaKaH]

I've started with this hobby on air in early 2000s, but it wasn't until 2005 until I had my first subzero experience. Stuck around on 939 for a while until migrating to 478 and 775/C2D for what feels like forever.

 

 

That's how insulation and pots looked back in the day before things got really professional

[Gunslinger]

PURE get together in Detroit before Vince defected to TW

 

 

Knut - aka Jackfruit aka the Baconator

 

 

Chispy aka Chrispy puff

 

 

 

a much younger and skinnier version of myself

 

 

 

OC heaven with Elmor, Adeline, TL, Shamino, Ian, Vlad, Hazzan, Jean-Michel,

 

 

 

TL and Shamino, masters at work

 

 

 

Shamino examining a major PSU engineering failure

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 1, 2017 by Gunslinger

[Strong Island]

This thread is going to be really cool, so many great photos and experiences, mine are so boring compared to you guys, but I just wanted to add to the thread.

[Gunslinger]

Let's go waaaaaay back...

 

Gautum, Vince, Cpt. Planet, GHZ and Tin in the EVGA lab

 

 

 

Tin's dungeon

 

 

Jake doing what he does best

 

 

 

George, striking the pose.

 

 

Charles talking tech with the press at IDF, BS meter is going off for some reason

 

 

Shamino, Rbuass, 8 Pack and myself, benching 4 way Titans live.

 

 

TL and Dumo

 

 

Raja stalking the floor (blurry)

 

 

Sham and Rbuass

 

 

Ian and Dennis Pang

 

 

IDF crew

 

 

Raja getting in on the action

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by Gunslinger

[Gunslinger]

More from IDF: http://s36.photobucket.com/user/mgorius/overclocking/story

 

More from TW: Taiwan Story by Mike Gorius (mgorius) | Photobucket

 

More from Detroit: http://s36.photobucket.com/user/mgorius/overclocking/Taiwan/Detroit/story

[Massman]

First dry ice session: 100% OC on 3000+ Venice [M] AMD Athlon 3000+ Overclocking, going for 100% OC on Dry Ice

 

[speed.fastest]

First Competitive Overclocking from 2010 with KOC2 Forums, but first LN2 session is back than in Country Cup 2013, did WR with my friends (Hazzan, placid, xgamespati, and fahmi_thebull, rhodie, yash_yulian, tashim, bambang some other) at STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta. All of them is great teacher and friends

 

placid`s HWBOT Prime score: 4447.23 pps with a Core i3 540

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by speed.fastest

[flanker]

Awesome stories and photos.

 

One of the best quotes is from Mr Albrecht , "Tom Cruise" of HWBOT aka Massman

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66364457/HWBOT/Gigabyte-Overclocking-Qualification-Round-1-leeghoofd-26639.jpg

[GreekPhantom]

So, it's time for the young (maybe too young) part of hwbot to go extreme. A couple weekends back i had the chance to overclock alongside Phi and Sofosl, and damn it was a great experience. Learned a lot of new things, from ocing till ln2 handling... The vent was the " Greek League of Legends Finals" for 2017.

[Alex@ro]

Subzero benching,dry ice and ln2 sometime 2006-2007 i guess , good times,makes me wonder when time flied, i still do the same things,smoking and drinking lol ,not sure i had any idea what i was doing regarding benching back then. First time i managed to get ln2 at home and bench like a bo$$,last year

 

 

Together with a fierce matose and Orlov

[flanker]

Young Matose

[SoF]

Cebit 2008 - 4870X2 crossfire on Mushkin booth by no_name & joe_cool...

 

 

 

 

PS: too bad most of the 1st AOCM picture thread is dead because we all used shitty free hosters back then but if interested, I can try to recover some backups from older articles of AwardFabrik from 2007-2010

Edited February 10, 2017 by SoF

[SoF]

1st AOCM 2007...can't believe it's been 10 years already...