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Quakecon ’10 Asus Event

romdominance — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:25:51 +0000

After a quick battle in SPi 1M on Asus’ site, Splave and I were slated to face Team Pure’s Brian Y and Gomeler in the ROG Experience tour round 1 finale at Quakecon 2010.
Chris (Gomeler), Brian Y, Allen (Splave), Bren (Romdominance)
The first day of competition was on the Rampage 3 Extreme motherboard with the Intel 980x cpu and a Asus GTX 460. The two tests for the day were SPi 32M and 3DMark 06. Splave and I were far behind half way through the first day, when we quickly switched out our cpu for the backup. With an hour and a half to go we passed Pure’s SPi 32M score by almost three seconds…it was then that we turned our sites on 3dM06. In the last half and hour we passed their score in 06 by a slim 330 points to sweep day one. Day two was AMD thuban 1090t and GTX480 day. All we had to do was win one of three tests and we win the event.
Just as if caught in a loop, day two started the same way as day one. Our first chip was garbage and we quickly switched cpus and focused on wprime 1024. After tweaking to an amazing result at almost 6.4MHz and Team Pure’s chip was badly degraded and frosted over, Splave and I had won the event.
It was a blast and I need to thank Brian @ Asus as well as his staff for a great event. Also thanks to Brian and Chris from team Pure for being graceful friends and worthy competitors. Last but not least, thanks to my wingman Dentlord for making the drive, for always supporting his team and partying with us in the evenings. On to Asus ROG tour round #2!

Romulan Ale and a lot of Boints

romdominance — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:48:21 +0000

Romulan ale and boints, are two of three things I can never seem to get enough of. Those of you who know me, know where the “Rom” thing comes from. For those of you who don’t, Greetings! I am Romdominance and this is my formal Introduction. I am a proud member of Team NBOC and the administrator of the wormhole. My username derives from my past gaming experience as a Romulan fleet admiral in a game known as StarFleet Command II, and has stuck with me over many years. I am sure my “fleet” memories are just as much “the good ol’ days” as the “clan” memories are for many of you,…so lets move on…..

I began building gaming rigs and overclocking them 4 years ago. I purchased a Dell xps 700 and was not at all impressed with it’s performance. I proceeded to upgrade everything from bottom of the line to state of the art (for the time) right down to the h2c cpu water cooler, dumb right? I managed to overclock the quad to 3.85GHz stable and achieve a 3dmark06 score of almost 21k, at the time one of the top two dells in the world. I still was not impressed as Crysis was not playable at 19×12. A month later I sold the rig on eBay.

It was time to build the “warbird”. The next step for me was to take out a small mortgage, lol, and buy the best of what I thought was out there. Like most of you, I made some good choices and bad, but with a little luck, she came together well. I began my oc forum debut at a little quaint website known as eocf. There the warbird dominated the Crysis bench thread for well over a year as well as winning the first “rig of the month”. Gradually I noticed that many of my friends were no longer around. With a little digging and a tip from a Vulcan, I found they had left to form NBOC. It was clear to me that I was through with noobville, so I joined the No Borders Overclocking Club and have never looked back.

With the advent of NBOC and our HWBot team, I soon realized that I had become a bencher, not so much a gamer any longer. Our team has managed to claim the number 2 rank in the USA and I am very proud to be a part of such a great group of guys. I was anointed as the Bot coach for our newer members, and that has enabled me to forge true friendships with each of our team members…

During that time, the warbird has undergone continuous upgrades to this point. Where I started with a 790i ultra, she now boasts a e759 Classified. For GPU’s, she started with 9800gtx sli and now sports
280GTX-HC tri-SLI,..and the list of CPU’s looks something like this, a QX9650 to an E8600 to an i7 965 to finally the i7 920do which I adore. Its all happened with the PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 1200 for a power plant, all within the Silverstone TJ-10BW ESA case, which has and will remain the hull of the Warbird till the end of her days.

Unfortunately, as many of you know, a case is difficult at best for benching. Also there are very real limits to how much you can achieve under water cooling…which leads us to my new project.

Under the wise advice of many of my brothers, (MaadDawg for the Banchetto, ocgmj for the w3520, Splave for the SS, and Kal-EL for providing my pots,… just to mention a few), I have began to assemble an escort battleship for the warbird. This rig will be a boint killer and will fetch many cups for the Empire in the days to come. For more on this build, please watch for a post entitled “The Empire’s new Prototype” under the rigs & racks category.

Until then, Thanks for visiting pcwormhole.com. I hope you enjoy the articles from our fantastic group of overclockers. I look forward to what the future holds for our team as well as for our sites and until then, Enjoy the Journey…

OCGMJ takes on editor position at the Wormhole

romdominance — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:26:18 +0000

Yes its true, ocgmj (George Moody) has accepted the position of editor in chief here at pcwormhole.com. I felt he would make a great choice and I am sure you will agree, he is always up to any task we ask of him. He has made some awesome contributions graphically to the site as well as solid suggestions in site arrangement. I asked him to consider the position mainly because he is a well informed overclocker and is well known throughout the field.

Both OC and myself will be communicating with the authors regarding their posts, but it will be his primary responsibility to keep the wormhole in tip-top shape. Please keep this in mind if you receive a pm or see your posts “slightly tweaked for better effect”. I think we both realize that you guys are overclockers first, and authors somewhere else down the line, so we are just here to help.

My gratitude and appreciation go out to ocgmj for accepting this position and helping all of us achieve our goals. I am sure he looks foward to all of our contributions as much as I do, Thanks OCamigo!

Romdominance
pcwormhole.com admin.

Romdominance’s Warbird

romdominance — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:29:05 +0000

Welcome all,…Here are a few shots of my rig “The Warbird” to fill the void on our virgin trip through the wormhole. The first photo is the Warbird’s current set-up. It consists of a classified (759) mobo, 920do, corsair dom gt’s and three EVGA gtx280hc’s. Obviously this configuration benches very well. Although this is a very attractive set-up in my opinion, its not to convenient for benching. The water cooled gpus make it very difficult to work on and the case is tight making component swaps difficult.

This shot is of a previous rig config with a EVGA 790i, bitspower blocks on the nb/sb and vregs and an E8600 for a processor…fun little ride at that point. The C2D was a far better arrangement than the qx9650 I was using before. Everyone knows they oc better, the lesser known benefit was the higher 24/7 clocks for gaming….That e86 was a great chip @5GHz benching and 4.6GHz gaming on water for a couple of hundred bucks, hard to beat imo. My good friend Rickss69 ending up purchasing the cpu/board/blocks/ram from me and is still using them for bench purposes to this day.

This last pic is of my current desktop. Its a bit messy and disorganized, but I am hoping to remedy that soon. I have plans of building an all inclusive desk/bench top which will have a fine furniture appearance. The plan is to be able to “close” it up so that my wife doesn’t have to look at Romulan central command 24/7, and I won’t have to hear about it, lol. More to come shortly.