Just a few days ago we came to the conclusion of the second round of the Old School is Best School contest on OC-ESPORTS. The contest ran from January 15th to February 15th and attracted the attention of 28 teams of Overclockers. At the end of a month spend toiling with AMD’s classic socket 939 era processors Nvidia’s GeForce 7 series, we find Greek overclockers HwBox Hellas O/C Team in total control of the Round with TechSweden.org in runner-up spot and Round 1 winners XtremeOverdrive OC Team Italy in third place. Let’s take a look at the Round 2 contest in a little more detail.

Stage 1: Cinebench R11.5

In Stage 1 we find the Greek are already making a strong claim with an outright win on the Cinebench R11.5 benchmark, taking top spot with a score of 0.93 points per core. The win arrives in part with the decision to use a single-core CPU, a wise choice seeing as all scores are in fact divided by the number of cores present on the CPU. The HwBox Hellas O/C Team earned 25 points and top spot thanks to good work from Greek Overclocker Stelaras who pushed an AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (San Diego) to 3,655MHz, a very tasty +30.54% beyond stock. In terms of motherboard, he used a DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert.

In second place we find Japanese master Kotori, who managed to score 0.91 points on behalf of the Warp9-systems team. This was done with an LN2 cooled single-core AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (San Diego) clocked at 3,578MHz (+49.08%) using a DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard. Third place goes to Dead Things and his team at Hardware Canucks, managing a score of 0.91 points using an Athlon 64 FX-57 (San Diego) pushed to 3,535MHz (+26.27%) and the same DFI board as Kotari.

Read the full Old School is Best School, Round 3 roundup article here on OC-ESPORTS.