I started writing on a news post about the overclocking at DreamHack Summer 2008, which just kept growing longer and longer and longer. All of a sudden I realized that maybe this is a bit too much to put on a single page so I had to split it into a couple of pages and make an article of it instead of just a news post. I knew that the news post would be long, it's just how it gets when you write about something you're really passionate about. I just didn't think it would become this long...
So I'm not really surprised this became an article instead of just a shorter news article. Extreme overclocking by itself is an delicate artform, and in my opinion, a form of competition much like Formula 1. When doing it live in front of 10,000 people it becomes something untangible.
You have to experience it, you have to see it with your own eyes. If you're lucky you will get a chance to do it yourself, and if you do, you should know that you are a part of a highly priviliged group of people. Overclocking in a closed and controlled environment is one thing, doing it live, at DreamHack, as part demonstration, part world record attempt, you have to take so many more things into consideration.
We at NordicHardware, and by that I especially mean Robert 'crotale' Kihlberg (NH) and Marcus 'Kinc' Hultin (now ASUS), have been doing this since 2005 and even though we have close to four years of experience, it's still a huge challenge.
