CeBIT: overclocking on stage
Overclocking is like astronomy: it works better alone and by night, so a stage is exactly where you don’t want to be to get some good numbers… Anyway, computer conventions are funny places, and a very good way to advertise for our passion. The more people will know about OC, the more manufacturers will care about OC capabilities of their products, meaning it’s in our best interest to run public shows.
This year, Cooler Master had designed their booth around the overclocking stage: we work there, run 3DMark on a big screen, then people gets attracted, and finally discover the complete booth and the new CM products. Being installed there is both a favor (they’re really interested in OC), and a great source of stress: everybody looking at you all day long, especially when it crashes or when you’re fighting for hours with stupid driver issues.
It’s a really special experience to be there all day long for the whole week. You come in the morning, everything is silent,you run some warm-up benchmarks, and people start to enter the hall… the day lasts very long when you have to display something interesting during 9 hours ! Then it’s 6PM, and the crowd leaves… and you stay on stage because you want better results. Through the doors, you now realize it’s the night outside, and you don’t want to know how late it could be, because no one is staring at you anymore, and scores start to shine. Finally, you get satisfied with the work done, it’s 3AM, and you’re really exhausted, time to go back to the hotel. In 5 hours, you’ll be on that stage again…
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