Ultra-expensive computer hardware, a few kilos of dry ice, a massive dewar full of liquid nitrogen (LN2) and some chutzpah to put all this stuff at stake to chase computing records – that is the idea of weekend fun for hardcore computer hardware enthusiasts. And, last week, I was lucky to be part of this exotic meet as a few of India’s most well-known hardware enthusiasts came together in a small room in south Delhi, aiming to push the latest and greatest computer hardware to its limit in a bid to break onto the world stage of overclocking.
Overclocking, or in simpler words, running a computer at a speed higher than what has been specified, gained momentum in 90s when geeks tried to milk every bit of extra performance from expensive computer parts. After 2000, the price of computer hardware started to creep downwards even as the performance increased by leaps and bounds. This largely obviated the need for overclocking to save money. But a large community of hardware enthusiast refused to give up overclocking. Instead, overclocking, which was earlier a necessity, evolved into a hobby. Though many still use overclocking to get that "extra" bit of performance, its finest practitioners have turned it into a virtual xtreme sport where the enthusiasts push their machines to the maximum and run some benchmarks to see who can come out on top. Overclockers even have a website of their own which ranks them according to their performance.
When Madhusudan Banik aka ‘The Banik’, one of the India’s most prolific overclockers, and Karan Mishra aka KiDOMAN, owner of a computer hardware forum called erodov.com, decided to have the weekend overclocking run, they were armed with some of the most powerful computer hardware a consumer can buy currently.
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