Romulan Ale and a lot of Boints

Romulan ale and boints, are two of three things I can never seem to get enough of. Those of you who know me, know where the “Rom” thing comes from. For those of you who don’t, Greetings! I am Romdominance and this is my formal Introduction. I am a proud member of Team NBOC and the administrator of the wormhole. My username derives from my past gaming experience as a Romulan fleet admiral in a game known as StarFleet Command II, and has stuck with me over many years. I am sure my “fleet” memories are just as much “the good ol’ days” as the “clan” memories are for many of you,…so lets move on…..

I began building gaming rigs and overclocking them 4 years ago. I purchased a Dell xps 700 and was not at all impressed with it’s performance. I proceeded to upgrade everything from bottom of the line to state of the art (for the time) right down to the h2c cpu water cooler, dumb right? I managed to overclock the quad to 3.85GHz stable and achieve a 3dmark06 score of almost 21k, at the time one of the top two dells in the world. I still was not impressed as Crysis was not playable at 19×12. A month later I sold the rig on eBay.

It was time to build the “warbird”. The next step for me was to take out a small mortgage, lol, and buy the best of what I thought was out there. Like most of you, I made some good choices and bad, but with a little luck, she came together well. I began my oc forum debut at a little quaint website known as eocf. There the warbird dominated the Crysis bench thread for well over a year as well as winning the first “rig of the month”. Gradually I noticed that many of my friends were no longer around. With a little digging and a tip from a Vulcan, I found they had left to form NBOC. It was clear to me that I was through with noobville, so I joined the No Borders Overclocking Club and have never looked back.

With the advent of NBOC and our HWBot team, I soon realized that I had become a bencher, not so much a gamer any longer. Our team has managed to claim the number 2 rank in the USA and I am very proud to be a part of such a great group of guys. I was anointed as the Bot coach for our newer members, and that has enabled me to forge true friendships with each of our team members…

During that time, the warbird has undergone continuous upgrades to this point. Where I started with a 790i ultra, she now boasts a e759 Classified. For GPU’s, she started with 9800gtx sli and now sports
280GTX-HC tri-SLI,..and the list of CPU’s looks something like this, a QX9650 to an E8600 to an i7 965 to finally the i7 920do which I adore. Its all happened with the PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 1200 for a power plant, all within the Silverstone TJ-10BW ESA case, which has and will remain the hull of the Warbird till the end of her days.

Unfortunately, as many of you know, a case is difficult at best for benching. Also there are very real limits to how much you can achieve under water cooling…which leads us to my new project.

Under the wise advice of many of my brothers, (MaadDawg for the Banchetto, ocgmj for the w3520, Splave for the SS, and Kal-EL for providing my pots,… just to mention a few), I have began to assemble an escort battleship for the warbird. This rig will be a boint killer and will fetch many cups for the Empire in the days to come. For more on this build, please watch for a post entitled “The Empire’s new Prototype” under the rigs & racks category.

Until then, Thanks for visiting pcwormhole.com. I hope you enjoy the articles from our fantastic group of overclockers. I look forward to what the future holds for our team as well as for our sites and until then, Enjoy the Journey…