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Initially when I heard about the concept and thoughts behind a national overclocking team only the group name had been decided upon. The name was the brain child of Oliver Andersen and Peter “Nosferatu” Kirk, who were both, like myself, regular overclockers on Hardware-Test.

I personally met both of them, and David Tranberg, at some benchmark meetings held shortly there after, and we immidiately hit it off together and agreed to establish OCTeamDenmark.

At the time, our idea was to have a group of overclockers with the intention of spreading the knowledge of overclocking in Denmark – and a forum devoted to extreme cooling, where the international overclocking community could also see what we were capable of.

The group quickly got under way. David delivered proper webhosting and I spent almost every waking hour with the development of the site using vBulletin and vbAdvanced software. At the same time Oliver and Peter were hyping the site in their signatures and keeping our forum alive with relevant regular updates.

Although everything kicked off with the best possible conditions for success, soon it became clear that only three of us were investing an awful lot of time in the project. Thus we parted ways with David, who was properly excused due to his professional work loads.

Before long, Oliver’s efforts were also insufficient and while I didn’t agree, suddenly we were only two guys left spearheading the community.

OCTeamDenmark survived major controversies at the beginning of the its lifetime, and after about a year I was simply tired of having to spend most of my time developing both website and forum, without having time to overclock. On top of that I was also increasingly dissatisfied with having to exert “corporate” damage control on the internal forum.

Ultimately I finished my commitment with OCTeamDenmark in the summer of 2008, when it became obvious to me that I had chosen the wrong partner for our project. Thus I have no further affiliation to the group – other than being one of the original four founders.

Since my departure the group has increasingly moved away from its initial concept and is now a heavily restricted members-only club, which promotes itself as the best this country has on offer, keeping all findings to itself as well as having seized its efforts to expand the knowledge of overclocking in Denmark.