[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

[Shahryar_NEO]

1) Started overclocking about 3 years ago when i bought a athlon 64 3000+ MX4000 . i got trouble with playing GTA Vice city and i start to overclock to don't buy a new system and unfortunately my graphic damaged and i had to buy a new graphic card at last

2) my turning point was my website . when i established my website i like to provide hardware informations in Persian but after that i figured out one of the most interesting part is Overclocking specially 24/7 overclocking that is so scientific and help you to have best Performance/Price factor . so i read many articles to know about overclocking to provide overclocking informations and news to my countrymans and step by step i learned it .