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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…

2x9600gso 128bit = 12 Golds

Splave — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:02:59 +0000

Had a bit of free time this weekend to pound out some well needed boints, and get a feel for this w3540 a bit. Needless to say, it was nice to have some easy going guaranteed goldage for a change! 3dmark06 was the only time they really seemed to not want to clock much, vantage I just got lazy and left it stock. SLI scaling with the most recent drivers has been decent as well. If your interested check out scores here.

Splave’s Introduction

Splave — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:22:49 +0000

Whats up guys? You may have seen me over at my main home ClubNBOC.com, or at my beach house at XS under the alias bobbylite. My real name is Al, im a gemini and I enjoy horseback riding….just playing. Lets get right into it.

Out of disaster triumphs pure pwnage. I wont mention any names but after a fallout on a previous forum a band of brothers stuck together and NBOC was born. The cream of the crop was then invited to join No borders OC team. Benching fever spread like wildfire and my wallet has never been the same. You guys on NBOC are what drive me to bench my heart out and I appreciate you all for that.

Being a youngster (22) my first system was an abit and +3200 754 with 6600gt 128mb agp GPU setup. After running aq3 and 3dmark01 2 billion times I had decided I had found a new hobby and future life long love.

My favorite setup in the last year or so had to have been my 3xgtx-260 216sp 55nm rig. After new TIM they had no problems at all running 792/1584/1205 for benching. Currently running a single gtx-295 but have yet to really push it. (Thank witch)

A couple things Id like to work on in the future would be moving out of this apartment and into a house so I can really start hitting some global points with LN2 and or a Cascade/dual stage phase unit. You can only get so far with a SS but what I have learned from using it is just incredible.

Really appreciate this site ROM. Big ups to you, your bro and OC for sure. I look forward to posting in the future. PAAYCE!