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I somehow wasn't aware of Overclockers.com until I started following the paper trail I unknowingly and inadvertently made four years ago. I may as well introduce myself properly.
If any of you are on any of the other large forums you've probably seen me around as Oj0 (most places that don't have username length requirements), Oj101 (hardly used anywhere anymore), Oj010 (OCN) or [XC] Oj101 ([XC] being Xtreme Cruncher and used on XS where I'm WCG captain and mod).
I'm from South Africa and I guess you could say I'm a retired overclocker - my big days were the mid 2000s and I wound down with the end of Socket 939. I cut my teeth on overclocking with a Pentium 120 Mhz when I set the jumpers incorrectly to a 66 MHz FSB instead of 60 MHz and the system booted at 133 MHz. It was still a while before I heard the term overclocking, but I haven't run a system at stock since. I still have my Celeron 300A @ 504 MHz packed away somewhere.
My favourite overclocks to date were an FX-55 at 3916.49 MHz on LN2 (
validation), 4144.57 MHz on an Athlon64 X2 6000+ (was a world record at the time,
validation), and 600.4 MHz 3-3-3-9 (DDR1200) on D9GMH RAM on dry ice (
validation). Does anyone remember when you could submit results to HWBOT by posting them online in a certain format and the HWBOT web crawler would upload the results? Or ripping.org? Overclocking and benching grew without me, I still do the odd LN2 session here and there but purely for personal pleasure and I don't even upload the results anymore.
These days media creation and technical journalism are bigger passions of mine - I used to run a tech site flyingsuicide.net but it got bigger than me and I pulled the plug on it. I was the first correct leak of GTX Titan performance, and when the card came out and people could confirm that my leak was accurate to within a handful of 3DMarks traffic increased drastically and my shared server could no longer keep up with the demand. I was new to advertising and undersold VERY badly (eg one year of advertising covered a month or two of hosting) and I was bleeding money so I literally walked away from it and let the domain expire.
My current pass times are photography, photo and video editing and my fiance - I hope she doesn't see this cause I mentioned her last
That's pretty much me - a has-been overclocker just enjoying life to the max
