Overdrive: Italy's Team Is Chosen

Friends, Together

Extreme overclocking is not just a hobby or a pastime—it is a real passion, which leads its enthusiasts to spend full nights in front of a monitor (next to a dewar of liquid nitrogen, even). Our competitors are no exception. All of the teams, in unison, ask to continue through the evening, allowing themselves only a break for dinner.

Interestingly, the same thing happened here in the States. None of the overclockers wanted to break for the night. We ordered pizzas and went for as long as was allowed.

The group of Italians would have liked to concede, but was forced to decline, as going on at night would have represented a violation of the regulations. All of the other nations’ teams had the same amount of time at their disposal. Then there’s the safety issue; we are dealing with dangerous materials, and so despite their great expertise, we preferred them to have had a few hours of sleep behind them before returning to the test bench.

Instead of burning the midnight oil, we spent a wonderful evening at dinner, where the rivalry between the teams was set aside and the discussions branched out beyond overclocking. We were happy to discover that an atmosphere of friendship and mutual respect reigns. All the guys who participate in our event, before being rivals, are overclockers and friends, linked by the same enthusiasm for a common effort, which always pushes them to get in the game and improve, thousandth of a second after thousandth of a second.

  • jwl3
    Who cares? Is anyone else sick and tired of hearing about this overclocking competition? They devote 5 articles a day about this thing. How does that affect me? 95% of overclockers are not overclocking for bragging rights, they want to get the most out of their system. What the heck do we give a damn that some dude got his machine to 8.0 GHZ?
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