Overclocking in Lebanon

thunderman

Hello Fellow Lebanese Overclockers,

First and in order to make my point, i would like to share with you my latest results in 3Dmark 11 Xtreme,
I benched my system for a score of X12582 which was good enough to put me on the 14th spot of the
3Dmark11 Xtreme Hall of Fame

http://www.3dmark.com/hall-of-fame/3dmark-11-top-extreme-preset/

The weird thing is that like some other overclocking websites 3Dmark does not even have the Lebanese Flag
to display, why ? well i think its because we never bothered to put our country on the world OC'ing map.

I used to live in France and in the US and there it was very easy to find some friends to challenge and have fun with during some nice and funny OC sessions...

Unfortunately all this seems very difficult here, i decided to open this topic not for bragging but to try to group the persons interested in this hobby so that we can have fun together and possibly do some nice results so that we can raise our country's position in the global rankings.
(Lebanon was last on HWboT rankings and it's now in rank 80 with just one active overclocker, I'm sure we can do way better if we unite on this matter...)

Anyway if you feel that this is of interest to you please reply, you could also post your RIG's specs for us to try and run some friendly competitions taking into account the differences in hardware: ie : specific benches would be selected for each type of system from single threaded to multi-threaded to graphics, memory , disk performance... etc...

Hope to hear from you,

Thunderman

AvoK95

Well a long time ago I opened this thread to benchmark our PC's against each other but it got abandoned for some reason.

MrClass

Well guys, OCing is much rather an expensive hobby. I'm still rocking a Q9550 and a GTX280 cause it suits my needs and quite honestly I am not very happy when spending thousands of dollars on PC gear which will become obsolete in less than a year. Unless we get a sponsorship or something, I don't think the idea will work :/

taekh3

@MrClass: Frankly, mate, it is not expensive and here is why, most common “Users” tend to purchase “K Chips” based on the current two generations with all the bells and whistles. strangely they keeps everything at “STOCK”, which is weird since “OC” on today’s platforms is ridiculously easy that even a grandma can hit the 4.7Ghz with a touch of a finger. In conclusion, for the “OC Part” I used to “OC my i7-920 D0 @4.0GHz / 24/7 Stable” back then believe me that was not an easy task however, “OC” nowadays is pretty much “Gaming Related” since you can always achieve a few more “FPS” for free. As for the “Hardware Lifespan” well mate, if you buy a BMW 3 Series 2011 model after a year BMW will surely release a new model does that means you should never change your car or Rig? I am sure it is not, in fact “End Users” worldwide change or upgrades every now and then at every product launch which is the case of many users around here.

Cheers.