Our final episode of the Overclocker Profile series brings us to a young man who recently took the Australian OC scene by storm, jordan.hyde99. Despite being the least experienced contestant in Berlin today, and also the youngest guy in the contest, make no mistake, Jordan is hot OC property and one to watch out for. Let’s have a look at the boy behind the LN2 flask and also revisit his path to Berlin for the Overclocking World Championship 2017 Final..

The Man Behind the LN2 Flask: Lucky_n00b (Indonesia)

Let’s kick by saying that Jordan is in fact only 17 years old and is in year 11 at school in Australia. Let that sink in for a moment. I would attempt a full bio of Jordan but at his age, there might not be too much to cover. What I can tell you is that he is an absolute whizz when comes to numbers, a trait that does you no harm at all when overclocking. He travels to Berlin with his father in tow, clearly blessed with a family that is fully supportive of his new hobby.

Jordan first started overclocking using an Intel Core i5. After tweaking the bclk settings of his locked processor, he was blown away by the improvement in overall performance. The eureka sensation clearly affected the young man who quickly became hooked, chasing improved score after improved score to climb leaderboards and gain more respect from like-minded others.

The Road to the OCWC 2017 Final

Jordan qualified for the OCWC 2017 final by beating a host of experienced overclockers in the OCWC Melbourne Qualifier which took place at PAX AU just a few weeks ago. It all kicked of on day one with a Qualification phase based around three benchmarks; SuperPi 32M, Cinebench R15, 3DMark11 Physics. Of the five overclockers who competed in the Qualification Phase, three are veterans of the Australian OC Scene, most notably zeropluszero who has competed at the highest level for several years already. Likewise FatBoyNotSoSlim and newlife are seasoned HWBOT Extreme League overclockers. Both unityofsaints and jordan.hyde99 were newcomers to live, competitive overclocking.

Semi Final 1: jordan.hyde99 vs FatBoyNotSoSlim - The first Semi-Final 1v1 match saw newcomer jorden.hyde99 take on the more established FatBoyNotSoSlim, an Aussie overclocker with plenty of pedigree in recent years. The random benchmark draw saw Cinebench R15 used as the medium of competition. Getting a foothold on the scorecard early on we find Jordan making an early score of 1,390 points, not so much beyond stock settings surely, but a good firm foundation to build on. Not long after we find FatBoyNotSoSlim upping the ante, hitting scores of 1,706, 1,799 and eventually 1,851 points..

Read the full Overclocker Profile article about jordan.hyde99 here on the HWBOT World Tour website.