Overclockers.com Benchmarking Team win Forum Wars 2011

Forum Wars 2011 Winners: Overclockers.com
Forum Wars 2011 Winners: Overclockers.com

What better way to flex an overclocking-centric forum’s muscles than with a benchmarking competition! The Raptor Pit and its owner, Raymo, has just put to rest the 9th “Forum Wars” on March 5th. The competition started on February 1st and was a five-way fight between teams from The Raptor Pit, Overclock.net, Overclockers club, Neoseeker.com and (of course) Overclockers.com. Within each team are classes (A through G) that are divided using a handicap system based on the number of cores/threads on the CPU,  number of GPU’s and cooling type. Typically Forum Wars uses both 2D and 3D benchmarks which vary between each competition. This year, the benchmarks of choice were Geekbench and Wprime 32M for 2D and 3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage for 3D. To round out the scoring, an overclocking bonus was available, based on the clock speed of the Wprime 32M run.

After all the dust settled on this year’s competition, Overclockers.com brought the crown back home to its rightful place! Last year our 5 year win streak was broken, but we have won this competition 6 out of the 9 years it has taken place. As well as taking first place overall, the team secured first place in classes A, B and E, second in C, D and G and third in class F. This is a very strong showing from our team, and clearly shows that they are at the top of their game. Special thanks go to Miahallen who organized the team and helped achieve this fantastic result. The full scores are available on the official website. However, it’s important to remember the enormous effort that benchmarkers go to in order to achieve these scores. A number of our members have posted pictures of the machines they have been using for Forum Wars and we’ve posted a few up here for your viewing pleasure. Congratulations again!

Bobnova's rig
Bobnova's rig

... ghetto style!
... ghetto style!

MIAHALLEN
MIAHALLEN

MIAHALLEN
MIAHALLEN

xXSebaSXx
xXSebaSXx

xsuperbgx
xsuperbgx

Wega
Wega

torin3
torin3

spiritedandy
spiritedandy

SamSaveMax
SamSaveMax

moocow
moocow

jiccman1965
jiccman1965

EarthDog
EarthDog

dejo
dejo (and daughter)

ChanceCoats123
ChanceCoats123

Meathead
Meathead

EarthDog/David

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Joe started writing around 2010 for Overclockers.com covering the latest news and reviews that include video cards, motherboards, storage and processors. In 2018, he went ‘pro’ writing for Anandtech.com covering news and motherboards. Eventually, he landed at Tom’s Hardware where he wrote news, covered graphic card reviews, and currently writes motherboard reviews. If you can’t find him benchmarking and gathering data, Joe can be found working on his website (Overclockers.com), supporting his two kids in athletics, hanging out with his wife catching up on Game of Thrones, watching sports (Go Browns/Guardians/Cavs/Buckeyes!), or playing PUBG on PC.

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W00t (We Own the Other Team)! Literally!

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Congrats guys on the hard fought victory! :clap:

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Congrats to all who participated and thanks for all the support given by many OCF members:clap:

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Love the picture collection of our rigs :D

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Congrats:beer: This is what this place is truly all about! Thanks for making OC #1 again!
I bow to you Overclocking geniuses:drool:

Nice pics too. How did you do Torin?

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Nice pics too. How did you do Torin?

Well, I got the second highest overclock percentage, but other than that, I was on a b-string team. My chip was just too old to compete well on the benches. (Got a 2.4Ghz Q6600 to 4.8Ghz.)

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Thanks for the mention Nick :attn:.....it was not necessary ;)

You guys did the hard work :salute:

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Thanks for the mention Nick :attn:.....it was not necessary ;)

You guys did the hard work :salute:

it is always neccessary to thanks those that do hard work for free, just for the betterment of a group of friends.

I will also thank you publicly, along with the others that helped in leading us to victory. without solid leadership, this win would have been very much more elusive.

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