[karmakazi]

1.)Started overclocking to gain performance for less $$$ to power gaming setups. (Funny how this hobby takes your original goal of spending less and bitch smacks you) Never a competitive benchmarker until recently (see #2), I would just run the 3d bench flavor of the year to guage system performance. Didnt even imagine a world of people just like me existed until discovering various forums a few years ago.

2.)I lurked around those forums until 2008 when I decided to start benchmarking "for real." What made a turning point for me was hwbot points system. Im a very competitive person (which is why fps/rts/rpg games addict me), so the worldwide ranking at hwbot caught my attention. On my current and old hardware around my house I was able to get up to about 100pts. But then after it was all benched to the limit I said what next? Started buying up lots of cpus and vgas, some irams, and one thing led to another. Then I took the plunge last year getting a copper pot, 2 vga pots, a 50L dewar, etc since air cooling wasnt getting me what I wanted.

Edit: owned everything from a appleIIe onwards, but didnt OC anything until AMD's athlons