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The Great Texas Overclocking Competition

 by Wesley Fink on March 9, 2005 12:00 PM EST
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Fugger, Macci and OPPainter Go for the Orb

One of the most interesting competitions in the world is the ongoing battle for top of the orb at FutureMark. FutureMark publishes the 3DMark gaming benchmarks, and the competition for top score in 3DMark2005, 3DMark2003, or 3DMark2001 is always fierce.

Anyone who has ever looked at the Orb, or top scores, at www.futuremark.com will recognize immediately the names Macci, Fugger, and OPPainter.

Eric “OPPainter” Kronies is positioned at the top of the orbs currently for single video cards at FutureMark. OPPainter brought his overclocking equipment from California and had “PC Ice” on hand to keep it all up and running.

Sami “Macci” Makinen traveled from Finland to have a go at the overclocking record. Macci has been a fixture of the extreme overclocking world for a few years, and he enjoys telling the story that he began supercooling by running his rigs outside his window in the bitter cold of a Finland winter.

Another name prominently seen at the top of the orb is Charles “Fugger” Wirth, who usually owns the Intel performance records. Charles had Reggie, better known as “chilly1” along to help him try for new records with some liquid nitrogen cooling.

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  • OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    #9
    Well as far as the competition goes, nobody won. We weren’t having much luck that day. Although, I did let the ATI Tech John Bruno play with my rig for a while and he actually came up with the highest score of the day. :-)
    And yes this is the real OPP.

  • HardwareD00d - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    lol @ 6

    0wned!!11oneone

  • NesuD - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    Have we just been blessed with a visit from an Extememe Overclocking legend? If you are the real OPPAINTER my hats off to you. I have followed your extreme over clocking achievements over at futuremark for some time now and I must say they are nothing short of amazing. Maybe you should consider being a guest contributer to Anandtech. So who actually won the competition anyway?

  • Wesley Fink - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    #3 - . . . and I just thought it was a blatant ad for ATI, since everyone is wearing ATI shirts and there isn't even a picture of the OCZ booth. :-) OCZ was an event sponsor, like ATI, Abit, AMD, and others, which were also mentioned prominently.

  • OPPAINTER - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    A wedding band doesn’t mean a thing. I’ve been married and I can tell you I had more fun with women before and after my marriage.

  • Questar - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    No wedding rings on anybody in those pictures.

    Somebody should tell these guys that girls can be fun too.

  • pio!pio! - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/shows/2005/tex...
    "OPPainter spent a good deal of time on camera explaining extreme overclocking. Here, he is talking about his current records at FutureMark to an audience who are astounded by the performance numbers that they are hearing and seeing for themselves at the overclocking competition."

    In actuality:
    "Why did my boyfriend drag me to this? ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

  • ajmiles - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    First page, the picture of the ATI card, the caption reads 500MB version as opposed to 512MB :).

  • EyeSpy - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    Another great OCZ advertisement! Keep up the blatant bias!

    ES

  • suryad - Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - link

    Couldnt have said it better Budman. That is very impressive. Wow! I cant believe the performance one would get with an FX running @ 4 GHz!!!!
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