Our annual championship has reached halftime and in this article we bring you a summarize of the earlier competitions and of course the current standings in this year’s championship.
Since 2001 we here at NordicHardware have arranged the Swedish Performance Championship. The thought behind the competition was to get Sweden, as a nation of overclockers and enthusiasts, moving and at the same time get others interesting exploring their computer and find out about its true potential, but also to lure experienced users into trying some more unconventional cooling. Overclocking had been around both locally and worldwide for a long time, but considering the the progress some of our nation’s overclockers have done lately we feel that this may very well be one of the best competitions we’ve had.
In this article we post today we will bring you up to date with what has happened so far in the competition, but also present some of the previous year’s winners and what they had to do to become crowned Champion in one of the two categories Percentual Overclocking and 3DMark.
If we look back at the previous competitions it seems that the fast development has mainly affected our 3DMark category, for obvious reasons. In the Percentual overclocking category it seems that AMD’s Duron 600-650 and Intel’s early Celerons are the processors most overclocker try to find to push as far as possible. With some exceptions though, which you will see if you read on.
Swedish Champions 2002
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Percentual Overclocking
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3DMark 2001
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Markus “QazTaz” Ålind
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 Jimmie “Knutas” Stinger |
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| Score: 153,5% | Score: 20107 points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Swedish Champions 2003
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Percentual Overclocking
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3DMark 2001
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 Christoffer “Krook” Krook |
Jimmie “Knutas” Stinger |
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| Score: 123,6% | Score: 29 825 points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Swedish Champions 2004
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Percentual Overclocking
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3DMark 2001
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 Robert “Crotale” Kihlberg |
 Peter “incido” Nilsson |
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| Score: 168,2% | Score: 40 618 points | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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We know that all except Markus “QazTaz” Ålind will be participating in this year’s championship as well, mainly in our new category then, excepf for Robert “Crotale” Kihlberg who will try to defend his title in the Percentual overlocking category and Christoffer “Krook” Krook, who will try to reclaim the title he lost last year to Robert.
This year we have introduced a new category which will be introduced a bit later, which means that there is no results from it so far. But to give you the grasp of it you can use any computer with a total cost less than 7000SEK, not including case and power supply. You then have to run three tests; SuperPi, Percentual overlocking and 3DMark 05. You then get a score from your position in each category and you then add these up to get a final score.
The other two categories are under way though, and even though we usually have to wait until the last week to see the favorites publish their results we have already received some really impressive submissions. Marcus "Kinc" Hultin has submitted a score with this world record system just a few points shy of his current WR.
Below you can find the current top 5 standings.
Update:
Kinc is secure in his number oen position will the three below is separated by only 78 points. We will have to wait until its all over to see what the final standings will be, because with so little separating them anything can happen.
| 3DMark05 |
1  Marcus Hultin, (Kinc) |
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18427
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| 2 Mattias Bengtsson, (Tuon) |
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16241
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| 3 Hans Westman , (gubben@Tech) |
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16174
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| 4 Peter Nilsson, (incido) |
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16163
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| 5 Dennis Johansson, (iQ) |
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14641
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In the Percentual overclocking category we received our first two scores over 100% this week, and as thefirst result was 5406MHz with a Celeron 325, and the second was 175% with it is even more impressive. The first is just 100MHz shy of the world record in fact, while the second is a new WR. As you can see from the screenshots Duron 600 is still a very popular choice among the overclockers, but we also see a Pentium 4 in there
Update:
Crotale has improved his score to 197%, which we earlier reported about, and the second place is now held by Andreas "himura" Johansson at 160%, who uses a similar processor. Fredrik "Fräd" Kindström at 113% has to look out for Glenn (k6-2) Alenäs at 111%. We know his Duron can do better.
| Percentual overclocking |
| 1 Robert Kihlberg, (Crotale) |
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197%
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| 2 Andreas Johansson, (himura) |
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160%
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| 3 Fredrik Kindström, (Fräd) |
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113%
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| 4 Glenn Alenäs, (k6-2) |
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111%
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| 5 Anders Olsson, (GroundX) |
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93%
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Kinc will most likely win the 3DMark category, but as we don’t know exactly what some people out there have access to, even though we only know of a few number of people in the entire world that would actually be ablet to beat him, so he should be able to feel quite secure even though he should perhaps not relax too much.
In the Percentual overclocking category everything can happen. We’ve heard goals ranging up to 175%, except from the submission from Crotale,and if we look at the earlier winners it may very well be possible, and who knows, someone out there may very well have found a processor that will become the new favorite among the overclockers for our category.
