A Different Sort of Contest

Category: OCC News
Posted: October 9, 2009 03:03PM
Author: Ben Grantham

One of the best reasons to visit OCC is the large community of helpful and knowledgeable members that frequent our forums. We realise that the sound advice that is dished out (well, most of the time) means that people are happy to come back time and again, so we like to try and reward those who enjoy sharing all that information from time to time. We believe we have run some great contests in the past, distributing tons of cool hardware in the process, but this time we a trying something a little different. Rather than giving you a formalised entry process, we will be rewarding our active forum members at random. You don't have to do anything special to enter, just being a forum member that likes to make helpful posts is enough (being a good member of the community basically).

This process kicked off last week, so we already have a nice surprise for one of our members.

The first prize of an ATI Radeon HD 4870 courtesy of our friends at XFX goes to tkrow21. Congratulations!

There are no set dates for the giveaways, but we will be looking to do them at least once a month. So good luck to all of our members, and keep up the (helpful) posting!

Forum and Gallery Update

Category: OCC News
Posted: September 13, 2009 03:17PM
Author: Dave Rattray

On Sept 18th we will be upgrading our Forums and the Member Gallery. You may experience some disruptions, but they should be short lived. There are ton of new features that we are looking forward to in this upgrade, such as the following: Reputation voting, Facebook Connect, Ytube etc. I could go on and on but you will see once things are in place. We are going to have a bug forum created once the new update goes live for people to let us know of any issues. One piece of advice; back up your PM's and your Sigs just in case. We were told they should be fine but you never know. 

For discussion, comments or questions you can go here.

Forum Wars Summer 2009 - Represent OCC

Category: OCC News
Posted: July 20, 2009 07:58AM
Author: Ben Grantham

It must be that time of year again, with this year's summer Forum Wars event getting under way on the 1st of August. If you frequent our forums, then you may already be familiar with the Forum Wars competition. Running twice a year (once in the Summer and once in the Winter), it gives forums the chance to compete against one another in a friendly overclocking showdown. If you enjoy pushing your system to its limits with the aim of benchmark domination, then you may be interested in competing as part of the OCC team. The competition has a generally friendly air, though some of the scores submitted are decidedly more serious. Anyone is free to put themselves forward to play, so even if your hardware isn't cutting edge you should be able to have some fun. Be aware that player numbers for the first team will be limited, but if we get enough interest, second (or even third) teams can be created. Check out the links below to find out more.

OCC Team Sign Up Thread
Forum Wars Summer 2009 Rules

Official OverclockersClub Reviewer Position

Category: OCC News
Posted: July 17, 2009 03:03AM
Author: Dale Shuck

We are looking for a talented & creative technical writer that has a natural ability to put his/her thoughts into words. This person will be required to follow strict guidelines and procedures while conducting reviews and must be able to work under a deadline. Applicants with prior experience in writing and conducting benchmarks are preferred but not required.

Requirements for the position include:

1. You must have a 4.0 MP digital camera or higher.
2. You MUST have a tripod
3. You must have a LOT of free time as writing a decent review takes a long time.
4. You must have a new, powerful system. Anything less than AMD AM2+ or Intel Core 2 Duo need not apply. Having an I7 or a AMD Phenom is preferred.
5. You must have at least a 24" LCD
6. Having more than one system is preferred.
7. You also must have the ability to change all components of your system with ease.
8. Must be a responsible individual who has the ability to work under a deadline.
9. Must have decent grammar skills.
10. Must be able to follow a predetermined format.
11. Prior experience in conducting benchmarks is preferred, but is not a requirement.
12. Prior experience with formal writing is preferred, but is not a requirement.
13. You must have an advanced photo editing program: Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (and you must be familiar with the basic ins and outs of whatever image editor you have)
14. Must live in USA

How to Apply:

You can send your resume & questions to Dave aka "Bosco" via PM or Email

Note: Your resume MUST contain your phone number and a valid email address

Once you have been selected you will be required to conduct a "test review" to prove that your skills are up to the task. After going over your test review, we will evaluate your performance and make a decision at that point on whether or not you will join the OCC team.

Be sure to watch your spam folder for responses.

And please, serious inquiries only.

Unique CPU Cooling Solutions Part 2

Category: OCC News, CPU Cooling
Posted: May 19, 2009 09:12PM
Author: Ben Grantham

Remember last week's tests on 'alternative' thermal interface materials from our forum member gabrieltessin? If you don't, then I suggest you go and check them out. But if you do, then you'll be pleased to know that a whole new batch TIM substitutes have been through the testing process. Up this time are some more items you'd be more likely to find in an average sandwich than pulling duty (attempting) to keep your CPU cool, including mayonnaise, ranch dressing and easy cheese. Also included is that handyman's everytool and fixer of all life's problems, duct tape (will it uphold its honor?).

Once again, some of the results may prove surprising, with a few of the substitutes delivering acceptable temperatures. Longevity and the potential for bad odours continue to be a problem, and there are a few examples that are worse than using nothing at all, but I'm sure you'll still have fun reading through the full run down. It is also worth noting that OCC does not in any way suggest that the materials in either parts of this testing actually be used as serious alternatives for real TIM (unless you want a particularly hot / smelly / dead CPU) and cannot be held responsible for any consequences arising from the combination of groceries and computer hardware.

Can You Really Use Toothpaste To Cool Your CPU?

Category: OCC News
Posted: May 13, 2009 10:52PM
Author: Ben Grantham

While that may appear to be a rather silly question, the surprising answer is that in fact, you can! (although don't expect it to last long). Now, we are of course talking about Thermal Interface Material (or TIM), something that anyone who has attempted to keep their CPU as cool as possible should be intimately familiar with. Products such as Arctic Silver 5 have been long standing favourites with the enthusiast crowd, but what happens when you are putting together a new build only to realize you have none in the house? Well I suppose you could do the sensible thing and order some more in, but that could take precious time (and stopping in the middle of a build is to be avoided at all costs). The other option is to improvise and substitute specially formulated TIM for something easily available in most households.

Fortunately, thanks to one of our dedicated forum members you no longer have to blindly pick an item from your kitchen cupboards that you think will be most suitable for this task. That's right, gabrieltessin has taken the guess work out of the process by testing a number of alternative thermal interface materials to gauge their effectiveness. An old Pentium 4 was subjected to helpings of peanut butter (creamy, not crunchy), toothpaste, raspberry preserves, hair styling clay and chapstick among others. The results were somewhat surprising, with a lot of the materials holding their own and often proving preferable to using no TIM at all. You can view the process and results in our forums. Further materials are already planned for testing, including duct tape and cheese wiz. Should be interesting!

OCC Recent Forum Activity: Issue #4

Category: OCC News
Posted: March 24, 2009 02:33AM
Author: d3bruts1d

What is the best game in XYZ genre is a common question. OCC's News Editor ClayMeow with inspiration from member Gr4vitas is looking to set a definitive answer to this question. Two polls have already been posted, and more are on the way. Go on and let the world know what game you think is the top RTS and top FPS of all time.

Do you have a computer illiterate friend or family member? Someone that is always having you come over to their house to fix their spyware or virus filled computer? How do you deal with these people? What do you do to ensure you don't have to continuously make house calls to fix the computer? Our member lost is, well lost on what to do with his uncle.

A new member, leon0998, is looking for a new [air] cooler for his 8800GTS. Any suggestions? On the topic of cooling, llcawthorne is looking for a better heat sink to help cool his hot running i7.

We'll wrap this issue up with a Hi-Definition question. What was the first BluRay movie you purchased, or what would you suggest as a first purchase? InCrYsIs just got a BluRay player and is looking for some suggestions.

Forum Wars Concludes, OCC Takes Fourth Place

Category: OCC News
Posted: March 9, 2009 02:58AM
Author: Ben Grantham

The Forum Wars competition, hosted again by The Raptor Pit has now concluded. After the usual rush of score submissions in the final stages, OC Forums continued their impressive winning streak to take the overall title for the third time running. OCC managed to grab fourth position, with 411 Overkill and The Raptor Pit filling out the top three. The Summer Wars competition will be commencing in August for any members who didn't get the chance to compete this time around, or who had fun this time and want to be involved again. Drawings for the available prizes have also taken place, with the following OCC members being pulled out of the hat:

Computer Power User Mag (12 issues)
psycho_terror
Raiderfan001

NZXT ‘eXcal1b0rty’ sword courtesy of NZXT
jammin

Prize winners should contact Raymo with your name and mailing address.

Overclockers Club Clothing

Category: OCC News
Posted: March 7, 2009 04:28PM
Author: d3bruts1d

I've got some great news for everyone. Our friends at Hacker Threads have stocked back up on Overclockers Club gear! Head on over there to pick up an Overclockers Club T-shirt, polo, or hoodie. All items are available in black, white, or the member preferred navy and come in sizes up to 2X.

For an additional $3 you can get any item personalized. Get your name, OCC handle, or whatever (up to 12 characters) printed on the sleeve. If you need suggestions for the personalization, may I suggest "d3 rules!"?

Be sure to check out the store for some larger, and front and back views of the gear. We'd love to see our members modeling the OCC swag, so post a picture of your bad self in this thread. Also, if there is any additional merchandise you'd like to see the OCC logo on, let us know (using the same thread) and we'll see what we can work out with our partner.

OCC Recent Forum Activity: Issue #3

Category: OCC News
Posted: March 6, 2009 06:00AM
Author: d3bruts1d

Hope everyone has had a good week so far. As many of you know, this weekend is the release of Watchmen in the theaters and IMAX. Have you seen it yet? If so, you may want to head on over to the Watchmen discussion thread. Be warned though, if you haven't seen the movie yet there are sure to be spoilers galore! I'm going to try and make it to an IMAX showing on Sunday.

Maj0r Gamer is looking for a nice mouse pad to compliment his Razer Lachesis. Does anyone have any suggestions for him? And in case you missed it, check out the OCC review of the Razer Lachesis mouse.

Printers have been big over the last week. When Eins7ein prints from IE7 to his HP printer, it simply prints the HTML code rather than the website. Other print jobs from different applications work fine. Has anyone encountered this issue? KB discovered the joys of purchasing a new printer when his Lexmark didn't come with a USB cable or a black ink cartridge. Andrewr05 is looking for a Laser Printer in the $400 range. Do you have any suggestions for these printer people?

Vista initially had a lot of problems for many people, though if you asked today a lot of people will actually recommend Vista especially the 64-bit version. That doesn't mean people still don't have issues with it. greengiant912 just recently installed Vista and is now having some sound related issues while playing games.

Like any enthusiast community, we like to see benchmarks. We have a number of places for people to compare their 3DMark and PCMark scores. That's great for the majority of the members that use a Windows operating system, however OCC also includes a growing Mac community. That's why we now have a Mac Benchmarking thread for members to compare their system scores using XBench.

Recent Forum Activity

Category: OCC News
Posted: February 27, 2009 07:21PM
Author: d3bruts1d

Earlier in the week, I posted about some of the recent activity going on in the OCC forums. It looks like some of you found that to be pretty useful, so I thought we'd try it on a more regular basis. So, every few days I'll try to do a general round up of some of the topic's that I've seen in the forums. If you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see covered in the round up, leave a comment or shoot me a PM/email. Additionally, you can recommend topics to me by sending them via PM. If everyone continues to find this useful, we'll make it a regular thing. :)

First up is Krow. He has had enough fun with shooters, and is now looking to take a stab at some role playing games, but needs some help deciding on a game. I know OCC has a lot of RPG gamers, so let's give the guy some input! While Krow is searching for RPG recommendations, msgmid is simply searching for something to search with. He likes the spotlight function of OS X, but needs something that'll work on his WIndows XP system. Google Desktop? MSN Search? What do you suggest he use?

Moving over to the hardware side, taylorolsen11 is sick of his Antec 900 and is looking for a bigger and better case. One of our newer members, disbjon, is looking for a good video card under $150. Surely we can find some new hardware for these guys.

And I'll finish it off with a poll of my own. Hey, it's only fair right? I'm curious as to what IM services and clients everyone is using these days. I have one person that I can think of that actually uses MSN, yet it's number two right now on the poll. Though we've only had 31 votes so far, so that could change drastically.

Now Hiring - News Editors!

Category: OCC News
Posted: February 25, 2009 05:24PM
Author: d3bruts1d

Do you have an interest in hardware, software, gaming, social media, and everything else technology related? Do you find yourself spending hours a day reading news sites and blogs? Would you like to write for Overclockers Club? Now is your chance! We are looking for responsible, talented and driven people to join our amazing team of news editors.

Additional information concerning skill requirements, compensation details, basic job duties, and information on how to apply can be found here. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Did you know? Case Gallery & Member Galleries

Category: OCC News
Posted: February 25, 2009 11:47AM
Author: d3bruts1d

Did you know that Overclockers Club has our own case gallery packed with over 900 different systems, and nearly 4,000 images? It's a free service that is available to all registered members. Show off your work and get comments and feedback from fellow members, or just browse through the gallery and gather ideas for your next case mod.

Perhaps case modding just isn't your style and you'd rather show off your mad gaming skills or some scenic photos that you took at the beach. That's alright too! In addition to the case gallery, OCC also offers members a wide selection of private and public galleries. Think of it as OCC's very own version of Flickr or Photobucket. ;)

Categories range from hardware and gaming pics to photos of people, animals, and nature. Members can also create their own galleries to show off. Here are some examples of what you'll find inside:

Recent Activity Around The Overclockers Club Forum

Category: OCC News
Posted: February 23, 2009 05:49PM
Author: d3bruts1d

You know that the Overclockers Club Forums are always buzzing with activity, but did you know that it isn't always hardware related discussion? Sure, we are a community of enthusiasts but there is so much more. In fact, we recently added an entertainment section to the forums for members to discuss their favorite TV shows, movies, music, and more. Are you a fan of Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, LOST, or maybe 24? That's just a few things our members are talking about right now, if your favorite show isn't already be discussed, just start a new post, there are bound to other members who share your interest. Perhaps music is more of your thing, you might want to check out the "What are you listening to?" topic and find other members with similar musical taste.

Need some ideas on other things to talk about? Check out some of these topics:

• Poll: Social Networks & Micro Blogs
• Post Your: Windows Desktop / Mac or Linux Desktop / Workstation
• Poll: What Linux or BSD distro do you use?
• Benchmarking: 3DMark Competition / Mac OS X Benchmarks
• Apple iPod 4th Gen vs Other PMP's
• Microsoft Windows 7 Discussion & Thoughts
• Your finest gaming moments
• Knives
• Poll: Your browsing behavior
• Gaming: F.E.A.R. 2 / Too Human / Diablo II

Also, we realize you cannot always get to the forums. That's why we've created a number of RSS Feeds for various sections, this way you can still see what's going on even when you cannot be here!

OCC Folding Contest Has Begun

Category: OCC News
Posted: February 16, 2009 10:17PM
Author: Dale Shuck

Our last contest, the OCC Graphics contest, is barely over and now we're back with another! Here at OCC we just seem to love giving stuff away so listen up. The latest contest is for Folding@Home participants that are currently folding for the OCC team #12772. If you don't know what Folding@Home is you can check out the link here. You can join our team at any time during the next three weeks but the sooner you join, the better chance you have of winning one of the many fabulous prizes from Thermaltake, Crucial, In Win, NZXT and Cooler Master. Included in the prize list are cases, memory kits, power supplies and hard drive docking stations. The Boss is even going to throw in a few goodies of his own so make sure you check out the rules and complete prize list in the Folding Contest Forum thread. It's all for a great cause so make sure you get those machines folding as the contest ends March 9!

Update: The winners have been announced. Congratulations to everyone who won, and thanks for participating in the Overclockers Club Folding@Home Contest. Remember to keep folding even though the contest is now over. It's for a great cause, and you never know when we might reward our folding members again. ;)

Forum Wars Winter 2009 Approaching - OCC Team Players Needed

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 27, 2009 12:10PM
Author: Ben Grantham

If you frequent our forums, then you may already be familiar with the Forum Wars competition. Running twice a year (once in the Summer and once in the Winter), it gives forums the chance to compete against one another in a friendly overclocking showdown. The winter wars will be getting under way on the 6th of February, when those wishing to compete will post stock clocked benchmark scores to confirm entry before the 20th Feb cut off date. If you think you have what it takes and want to have a bit of fun in the process, then you can sign up to play for the OCC team here. If you haven't played before (and even if you have) then checking out the Rules is a good idea.

Support for Stephanie

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 25, 2009 10:21AM
Author: Dale Shuck

OverclockersClub is part of a community of sites dedicated to computer-related hardware and overclocking issues. We're also part of a group of other like-mind affiliate sites that share similar interests. Bjorn3d.com is one of our affiliates and Scott Sherman, the publisher at Bjorn3d, has reached out to the Internet community to share the sad news that his 13-year old daughter has just been diagnosed with cancer. Scott has asked for prayers and support for his daughter Stephanie as she begins her battle with cancer. There is a site available where you can show your Support for Stephanie. I would ask that our members join together and show that we at OverclockersClub care and let Scott and Stephanie know we are thinking about them.

Is ATI Finished????

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 22, 2009 05:43PM
Author: Dave Rattray

There is an old saying never believe what you read on the internet. This is true in a lot of cases but something in my email caught my attention of the last 3 days.

 

Yesterday I received roughly a 140 emails about some comments made by a reviewer at TechFuzion. Basically it was claimed that ATI was not going to be making GPU's after their next launch of 5000 series cards. He goes on to say that they would be made by another company. The person claimed that he had heard this both from ATI and Sapphire directly. Now as I said before you can't believe everything you hear but I figured what the heck I will bite. I first contact Sapphire they knew nothing about what was stated and they also had no knowledge of the person making these claims. I felt this to be interesting and I figured that well this is probably hogwash and that would be the end of it, that was until I contacted ATI. When I finally spoke with someone in a high place at ATI via email his response was a little odd:

 

"Quote"

 

As far as rumours go we are not addressing anything at this time.

 

This has me very surprised, I would think if this rumour was total BS that might just come out and say it, but maybe there is something here. Maybe they are going to have someone else design their GPU's. Could it be a good thing or a bad thing? Are they feeling the heat from Nvidia? Maybe in the long run it might save them money who knows. I have been very vocal about ATI drivers for a long time now and I feel they are no where near the level of Nvidia. If they cut GPU making from their list of things to do maybe we could see more effort on the drivers and scaling in crossfire. Hopefully we will get a more in depth response down the road but in the interim this gives you something to think about that's for sure.

 

Feel free to weigh in on some comments I would love to hear what you guys think if its a bad move or a good move if this does turn out to be true. Now that I have something posted people can stop emailing me lol.

OCC Graphics Contest, Voting Started!

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 19, 2009 08:03PM
Author: Dale Shuck

We here at OCC just like to give stuff away. Really. We gave away a pair of Sapphire HD4850 X2 cards this fall, a MvixBox NAS sever and over 60 prizes in our mega Christmas giveaway. Of course there's the upcoming Folding@Home contest. To fill in the gap until the folding contest begins, OCC is now sponsoring a graphics contest with the winner to take home a Sapphire HD 3850 videocard. All you need to do for this contest is design an OverclockersClub userbar. What's a userbar you ask? Head on over to the Official Contest Thread to find out all the details. The contest ends Monday, February 2nd @ 11:59PM CST so make sure you get your entries in on time!

Edit: Cast your vote for the best OCC Userbar in this thread.

 

OCC to Participate in the 12th Annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity at CES!

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 6, 2009 06:40PM
Author: Dale Shuck

One of the hottest events at CES is the Build Your Own PC Race with the winner being awarded a $10,000 check to give to his/her favorite charity. This year OverclockersClub was one of only 30 groups invited to participate and our own ccokeman will be representing us. The race will take place on the first night of CES, January 8th. Pre-race festivities begin at 5:30PM Pacific Time with the race to begin at 7:00PM PST. This year's race will be broadcast and you will be able to watch it LIVE here on OCC!! We're working on getting the live stream set up and will post more details as soon as we can. Clear your calendars and join us in cheering ccokeman on as he competes in this worthwhile cause.

Congratulation to OCC's contestant, ccokeman, for an amazing 6th place finish this year with a very respectable time of 7:18!

Join the OCC Folding@home Team

Category: OCC News
Posted: January 5, 2009 08:33AM
Author: Dale Shuck

For the last several years Stanford University has been studying the mechanics of protein folding - or how proteins in the human body assemble themselves. As part of this research scientists are also looking at what happens when that process doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. When proteins do not fold correctly, there can be serious side effects which include many well known diseases such Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, CJD and ALS. Simulating the way proteins fold, though, takes massive computer resources, far beyond what would be possible using resources normally available to researchers. Stanford developed an ingenious approach to the problem by developing a distributed computing model where the computational requirements are broken down into many small pieces. Volunteers around the world download the client software from Stanford and use their computers' idle cycle times to work on the problem and return the results back to Stanford. Recent advances in processor technology and the use of stream processing on GPUs has enabled Stanford to make tremendous leaps in their research, none of which would have been possible without the participation of users around the world.

OverclockersClub is proud to be a part of that process with our Folding@home team. We are extending an open invitation for all to further Stanford's research efforts by downloading the Folding@home software from Stanford's site and be part of the OCC team (team number 12772) as we work together to better understand the role proteins play in these diseases. As a show of our commitment to the project, OCC will be running another contest sometime in February so now is the time to get those machines folding!

Click here to discuss this item in the OCC forums.

Christmas Contest Winners Announced!

Category: OCC News
Posted: December 24, 2008 10:20PM
Author: Dale Shuck

OCC's mega Christmas giveaway Contest is now concluded. This year we had 60 prizes to award to our forum members as a way of saying thanks to all who made 2008 such a great year. So, without further ado, here is the complete list of winners:

Grand Prize Full System donated from CyberpowerPC winner is: TheWacoKid

Here is the list of runner up prizes:

From Sapphire:
1 X 4870 512MB - d3bruts1d
1 X 4850 - flareback
1 X 4830 - road-runner
5 X 4670 - kurosen, sYstEmATiC, Fireonice, O(V)eGA_l2el), philbrown23

From Thermaltake:
Spedo Case - mattwalter85
850 Watt PSU - werty316
3 X BlacX - Fanatic, Hemidare, JJRKOC

From Mushkin:
Triple Channel Memory Kit 6GB - Compxpert

From Palit:
5 ATI 3850's - Gr4vitas, Sparkyftw, Fight Game, nVidia_Freak, CheeseMan42

From MSI:
X58 Platinum - Crow47
Eclipse SLI - ekiM

From OCZ:
1 X DDR2-800 Reasper 4GB Kit - BKen
2 X Elixir Keyboards - Andrewr05, redtigerdragon
2 x ATV 4GB Flash Drives - ciddono, soundx98
2 X Behemoth Mouse Pads - Zerox12, turophiliac

From Sigma:
Raidmax Aztec - Rud3bwoy
Raidmax Icecube - capthowdy575
Unicorn Case - XiXVenomXiX
Phantom Case - kevinz90

From In Win:
GD Metal Suit Case - airman
Stealth Bomber Case - baz000ka j0e

From Coolermaster:
1 X RC-690 - Wormy
1 X Real Power Pro 750W PSU - r3d c0m3t
1 X Hyper Z600R - DLS2008

From NZXT:
Tempest - Krow
Avatar Mouse - PUTALE1
Whisper - hornybluecow

From Crucial:
3 X 4GB Kits of Crucial Ballistic Tracer Red - lucky13*, robAP, evanin

From Corsair:
2 x TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX - Dynamic, incrysis
2 x CMFUSBMINI-4GB - ocmooz, virus

From Super Talent:
5 X 8GB Pico USB - Fangsss, Harima, K7leafclover, LovermanOwens, pr0pht133

From ECS:
9600GT - Avo345

From OCC:
Corsair HX520W - xPETEZx
Patriot 2GB of DDR3 1866 - Slick2500
Asus Striker II Formula - tomcat42071

From Bosco:
750Gig Harddrive - Slugbug, viperk1
Thermaltake Case - SuppA-SnipA

Congrats to all of the winners and a special thanks to the sponsors who made this possible.

Merry Christmas guys!

Dave

Sign Up For the OCC Newsletter

Category: OCC News
Posted: December 12, 2008 12:15PM
Author: Dale Shuck

Ever wondered what might be going on at OverclockersClub that you're missing out on? Want to be some of the first to find out about OCC's contests and other unique content? OverclockersClub announces the return of our newsletter designed to give faithful readers advance notice of the good stuff. We won't be bombarding your mailbox with everyday items, but when it's something really unique or time to give away some free hardware you'll be the first to know. To sign up, head on over to our subscription page and join now!

Naughty or Nice - OCC's Christmas Contest is Coming to Town - Winners Announced!!

Category: OCC News
Posted: December 3, 2008 07:33PM
Author: Dale Shuck

OCC's elves finally got a peak into Santa's bag and let's just say it's jam packed to overflowing with prizes. Thanks to the generosity and support of our sponsors there are 60 prizes in all. The grand prize, courtesy of CyberpowerPC, is a full liquid-cooled Core i7 system complete with an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. Other prizes have been donated by Sapphire, Thermaltake, Mushkin, Palit, OCZ, Sigma, In Win, NZXT, Crucial, Corsair, Super Talent, ECS and OCC. A complete list of prizes can be found here.

Grand Prize full system donated from CyberpowerPC specs are as follows:

Gamer Xtreme XT (bundle FarCry 2)
ThermalTake Spedo full tower
Intel® Core™2 i7-920 2.66 GHz over clocked to 3GHz
Asus P6T Deluxe Intel X58 Chipset
3GB (3x1GB) DDR3
Lite-On DH-401S 4X Blu-Ray Player
Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System
1TB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
STANDARD KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
Thermaltake Toughpower 650 Watt Power Supply
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB DDR5 PCI-Express Dual DVI-I & TVO

In order to qualify for the contest you must be a member of the forums. To enter the contest send an email to contest@overclockersclub.com. In the subject line you MUST have OCC Christmas Contest there. In the message box you will put your forum username as well as your personal info. This will include your name, shipping address, phone number and an e-mail address where you can be contacted if the need arises. Failure to do any of the above will leave you out of the contest.

The contest will be over on Dec 24th at 9pm Pacific Time.

There is one catch and one catch only. In order to win the Grand Prize of the Core i7 system you must have a minimum of 50 posts in the forums.

Good luck to everyone and from all of us here at OCC, thank you to all of our members and here's wishing all the Season's Best to you and your family!

You can check out the complete list of winners here.

4850X2 Contest Has Ended

Category: OCC News
Posted: November 1, 2008 03:27PM
Author: Dave Rattray

Sapphire is giving us two 4850X2's to give to our members here at OCC. You will see the review next week in the mean time here is what you have to do for the contest.

Pretty simple send an email to contest@overclockersclub.com. In the subject line put Contest. In the message box put your username (from the forums) and all of your contact details so we know where to ship the card if you are picked as the winner.

Congrats to Cyrosis and capthowdy575 for both winning a card each.

OCC Is Now Hiring News Editors!

Category: OCC News
Posted: September 19, 2008 08:56AM
Author: Scott Young

Are you a technology news junkie? Do you spend way too much time online? Do you enjoy putting what you read into your own words? If you said yes to these questions, then you just pre-qualified yourself to be an OCC News Editor. News Editors are the unsung heroes of OCC and they are responsible for a big chunk of the traffic that this site receives. If you think you have what it takes to be a News Editor, then click on over to the official forum post and read the requirements and send in your application.

OCC Is Now Hiring Reviewers!

Category: OCC News
Posted: September 19, 2008 08:53AM
Author: Scott Young

Do you have the desire to test new hardware? Do you enjoy pushing computers to their limits? Can you work under a deadline? If you answered yes to all of these things, then you might just be what we're looking for. We are looking for a talented & creative technical writer that has a natural ability to put their thoughts into words. This person will be required to follow strict guidelines and procedures while conducting reviews and must be able to work with a deadline. Applicants with prior experience in writing and conducting benchmarks are preferred but not required. If you have any questions for want to see what the official requirements are, then take a look at the forum post.

OCC Gigabyte 4850 Contest

Category: OCC News
Posted: August 8, 2008 01:21PM
Author: Andrew Robinson

Do you need a new videocard?
Do you want to win one from OCC for free?

Just head on over to our forums if you are a member (if not register here), follow the rules in the contest thread and BAM! you're entered into the running.
Contest Thread
OCC'S Gigabyte HD 4850 Review

Congrats to bg8780 on winning. Stay tuned for another contest.

OCC Fantasy Football

Category: OCC News
Posted: July 31, 2008 05:26PM
Author: Chris Benjamin

You can continue to visit and discuss the OCC FFL in the Official OCC FFL thread!

Forum Merge With DIY Street Completed

Category: OCC News
Posted: June 28, 2008 11:07AM
Author: Ben Grantham

You may have noticed that the Forums experienced a lengthy period of down time during the recent announced upgrade.

The DIY Street Forums have now been merged into the OCC Forums and can be found under their own heading for the time being.
The whole process took longer than expected, as you can appreciate, and there will be further reorganisation carried out to ensure DIY content integrates more seamlessly.

You can read further details here.

Thank you for your patience,

OCC Staff