Good to see so many names of people, who were important for me starting and growing this passion. Michael @No_Name for being the one to raise popularity of extreme overclocking together with PC Games Hardware magazine in Germany around 2005/2006. George @hipro5 for giving valuable tips when I got my first setup solely for overclocking (E6600 + Asus Striker Extreme + Crucial 10th Anniversary Kit). And of course Charles @FUGGER for providing the forum at XtremeSystems, that would quickly become my home forum since 2007.

14 hours ago, TaPaKaH said:

I am still binning and benching, as active as ever. Just not for hwbot

I'm probably not the only one who hopes that you will change your opinion regarding HWBOT, re-activate your account and post your scores, as they are a wealth of information and a database of overclocking scores is not complete without the results of your testing.

Edited January 31, 20196 yr by Don_Dan

@Hazzan, @Hondacity

14 hours ago, Achill3uS said:

there are a lot of guys on my never forget list who stopped eariler but learned a lot from them... without ranking or hwbot profile:

TeamJapan (Omega, Newbeetle, kyosen, Cal930) we are very lucky that fredyama and duck is still active
Shamino
Kinc&crotale
sampsa&Macci
SF3D
The_Stilt
Andre Yang
No_Name&Joe_Cool
Fugger&Oppainter
hipro&gprhellas
OPB&Predator
giorgioprimo&Leghorn
hiwa
Brian y
eva2000
Coolaler
Turrican&ojdr2001 (rip bros)

and so much more...

Great list! 

Shamino still benches for ASUS, Roman even mentions in his latest video that he benched the 28-core. I guess he doesn't upload scores on HWBot anymore but for me that's not retired Similar situation for @TaPaKaH.

14 hours ago, richba5tard said:

@k|ngp|n @FUGGER @coolaler OC Team @oppainter @maci @shamino @onepagebook ...

By the way, a neat way to check for old record holders is to use the record history on a benchmark page:

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/3dmark03/

If people delete there submissions it will not appear here, but I think most are still here.

Calling FUGGER retired is plain wrong, he beat Alan's PCMark 10 WR at 9900K release! 

Is Kingpin really retired? He Uploaded a bunch of WRs for the last two Nvidia GPU releases (1080ti and Titan V), now I just assume he is still working on perfecting the 2080ti KPE before posting scores.

Edited January 31, 20196 yr by unityofsaints

@Gyrock  @barbonenet

@angoholic

@dumo

@Aristidis

Edited February 1, 20196 yr by Bullant

16 hours ago, Radi said:

 @Strat 

4 hours ago, ale_belo said:

@hideo

2 hours ago, speed.fastest said:

@Hazzan

1 hour ago, Bullant said:

@barbonenet

I didn't realise any of these people were retired, sad! Now I regret making this topic. Maybe there is some hope still for Hideo? Last results in the 8700K era, less than 1 year ago.

Edited February 1, 20196 yr by unityofsaints

I'm not retired

Pedro Rocha one of the masters of 3DMark 01 back in the day on his mini cascade , R.I.P amigo.

Kotori ...Japan, great bloke, excellent bencher, cant say if hes benching anymore, havent seen him do anything in a long while

50 minutes ago, Massman said:

I'm not retired

 

Prove it.

3 hours ago, Massman said:

I'm not retired

2 hours ago, zeropluszero said:

Prove it.

Cool, time for some AMD 32M on LN2 then - there's a new Carrizo chip this year you know

On ‎1‎/‎31‎/‎2019 at 11:15 AM, richba5tard said:

@k|ngp|n @FUGGER @coolaler OC Team @oppainter @maci @shamino @onepagebook ...

By the way, a neat way to check for old record holders is to use the record history on a benchmark page:

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/3dmark03/

If people delete there submissions it will not appear here, but I think most are still here.

Correction (it's a double c)

https://hwbot.org/user/macci/

 

On ‎1‎/‎31‎/‎2019 at 12:22 PM, _mat_ said:

@tiborrr (benched like crazy back in the day! also left EKWB)
@Monstru (still kicking hardware at lab501 though, but won't sub on the bot anymore)
 

Let's add @matose next to Monstru , they had some great teamwork if I remember correct.

11 hours ago, Bullant said:

 

@Aristidis

For the same reason as above

Let's add @Stelaras too

Steli is still active.

On ‎2‎/‎1‎/‎2019 at 3:26 AM, TASOS said:

Correction (it's a double c)

https://hwbot.org/user/macci/

 

Macci was a good one.

 

Vintage macci.

 

"   Vintage macci. "

 

Thanks for sharing this. I still remember the 3DMark01 friendly battles between , kingpin , Macci , Hipro5 , Pedro Rocha and Shamino , they were Epic ... , Oh dear how fast times goes by ...

Edited February 4, 20196 yr by chispy

@steponz oh you said notable sorry

 

@l0ud_sil3nc3 hibernating maybe

 

@Kal-EL Ran many competitions as well as hurricane relief fundraiser comp for Japan

http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=8479faa8215a67c25e129c4c37c518ac&t=4291

@Patch Used to run crazy multi card 3d scores

 

Bunch of excellent AU guys also

@Deanzo

@uncle fester the beginning is a bit rough but the end is gold

 

Edited February 4, 20196 yr by Splave

Heres some vintage Shamino from the way back machine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 2/4/2019 at 3:39 PM, Splave said:

You cuck ahhaahahahah

 

 

@steponz oh you said notable sorry

 

@l0ud_sil3nc3 hibernating maybe

 

@Kal-EL Ran many competitions as well as hurricane relief fundraiser comp for Japan

http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/showthread.php?s=8479faa8215a67c25e129c4c37c518ac&t=4291

@Patch Used to run crazy multi card 3d scores

 

Bunch of excellent AU guys also

@Deanzo

@uncle fester the beginning is a bit rough but the end is gold

 

 

On ‎2‎/‎4‎/‎2019 at 8:55 PM, chispy said:

"   Vintage macci. "

 

Thanks for sharing this. I still remember the 3DMark01 friendly battles between , kingpin , Macci , Hipro5 , Pedro Rocha and Shamino , they were Epic ... , Oh dear how fast times goes by ...

Good old xtremesystems.org days.

Epic 3D battles (2k1,2k3,2k5,2k6) ... and spi , pifast.

... and now that I recall ... that's where I first met the original bot tags [/bot]

 

edit

I think Macci and oppainter , where a bit earlier than than kingpin and hipro5

Edited February 6, 20196 yr by TASOS

I really love OC history 

@chew* Always liked his work

Edited February 6, 20196 yr by Bullant

 Nice thread, congrats however the list is based almost only on hwbot overclockers...

You can take a look at this thread, there are many unknown top overclockers from 90's era (most of then are from japan) that deserve to be on a list:

https://community.hwbot.org/topic/161125-first-ln2-overclock-session-in-history/

I have a lot of old school overclock material here with me, that i collected from my researches and didn't published because it is not extreme oc related, if you wish i can share it.

Imo it is very important to collect and preserve overclock history, i wish i had free time to keep digging about it...

Edited February 11, 20196 yr by Casanova

On 2/4/2019 at 10:08 PM, MetalRacer said:

Heres some vintage Shamino from the way back machine.

The thing I remember most is his dual head cascade crammed into a tiny apartment

 

Edited February 11, 20196 yr by unityofsaints

 

Year 2006 Vince " kingpin "  Lucido 13 years ago  ......

Edited February 11, 20196 yr by chispy