How Long and Which is Your Favorite?

Chuchnit · #1 07-27-2009

I got two questions for you guys.

1. How long have you been benching?

2. What is your most treasured score?

I'll start it off.

1. I have been benching as a serious hobby other than testing an overclock for a little over a year now. I know, not very long ohcrap

2. My favorite score isn't near my highest. It is my favorite because I scored higher than I thought I could and I put so much effort into it. It is my best run during our 2k1 contest. I spent sooo many hours into getting this best run. This run and the contest gave me more confidence than any other to date.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9510115

Neuromancer · #2 07-27-2009

Started benching in late 2003.

Fav, would have to be e6300 on a POS 945 chipset mobo with a x1950 xt

Stock bench in 06 was around 4kish IIRC. I OCed and tweaked and benched. Got up to 6930 or something like that.

I refused to stop till I got at least 7000.

Took a solid week but I did it. 5 days from 6790 to hit 7000. (Was my first C2d)

e6300 at 3360
x1950xt @ 688/981

Do not remember the rest.

Kal-EL · #3 07-27-2009

Well, Mr. Survey, I've been benching for a lil while and my proudest score is 25k with SLI 8800 ultras

Chuchnit · #4 07-27-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Well, Mr. Survey, I've been benching for a lil while and my proudest score is 25k with SLI 8800 ultras

Aren't we the cool guy cool2

rickss69 · #5 07-27-2009

Been a casual overclocker for three years until the beginning of this year.

Don't have a particular run in mind, but I do like A3 because it's short and sweet.

DrNip · #6 07-27-2009

1. How long have you been benching?

Three years now. I did some back in the day in 2002 but a few bad decisions dampened that until just recently in the last few years.

2. What is your most treasured score?

3DMark 06 30k run with two vanilla GTX 260 192's. I hit 30k just messin around with a mild overclock with my 4890's when I had them for a few days but that was with 3 cards.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11485796

69_Goat · #7 07-27-2009

1.) Just got serious about benching in April of this year when I got this i7 rig. It was only after that, I discovered there was actually a venue for posting scores and competing in this hobby. "So cool ! "
I have dabbled in OC'ing since the mid 90's starting with a Pentium 233.
2.) My favorite score would have to be my 300K AM3, for the same reason as Chuchnit, it's the one I worked hardest for. I had to do alot of digging and reading even to get it to run. I got some help from Rev @ NBOC that pushed me over. (Thanks Revvy)

Neuromancer · #8 07-27-2009

hee hee Man I remember when AM3 was not short and sweet. That particle test in the beginning (the plume of smoke out of the vent) would hit single digits :p

punx223 · #9 07-27-2009

1) Been overclocking since the days of changing crystals to change frequency

2) Favorite score has to be when i finally broke into the 7's in superpi 1m

Gunslinger · #10 07-27-2009

Started benching in the fall of 2006.

Probably most proud of my single card 32108 run in 3DM06. I still remember running 06 for the first time on my old Dell pc and scoring around 4K.

I look forward to a top 10 single card run very soon.