I bench because it gets my heart racing! I dont drink, I dont smoke anything, Im just a boring muscle head optician and OCing gives me one hell of a rush. I mean whats not to love? You push yourself, your wallet and your hardware to the edge of explosion for 2 FPS and or .5ms
The highs and the lows, failing heaven at tests 26 of 26 to grabbing the world record. Just thinking that noone has ever run this test with the numbers I was just seeing makes you feel pretty good.
On the HWbot front, Its a sense of pride that pushes me. To see an OCAlliance flag next to guys that go through trays of chips and have full on manufacturer support really speaks volumes about what we do here. We are a private club, this is not XS and it very easily could be a clone and kal could have the hookups just like fucger....But none of us want that and kal is one of the most giving bastards Ive ever met.
More so then scores, when I see kiki benching all night long for 10 scores that get .1 boints but he still submits them and rocks it out I respect the hell out of that. Im just a monkey with a good source of ln2 close by and time to pour said ln2 all over my hardware
The more I think about ES chips the more I think they should be done for. Talking to Kal the other day on the phone, he had just bought a 990x the day before Hwbot allowed them for submission and it just made you not even want to bench it when you were seeing these scores guys were doing 2 months ago on this hardware. Binning $330 sandy bridge chips is hard enough....now lets talk about $1000 chips :X
Back on topic. Ive met a ton of great people being apart of this community. Having Rev come down from canada for a little cascade action, future northeast contingent get together thats bound to happen and hell I talk to romdom on the phone everyday and dent quite a bit as well.
Ocing is a blast and when its not fun anymore I will quit
ROFL So probably never!