Quote Originally Posted by DarthBeavis View Post
re the spaghetti cable mess: too many over-clockers have no sense of aesthetics. If you guys ever want to make over-clocking interesting to the general public you will need to try to make it all look non-ghetto. One sweet case mod will get way more publicity than the world record over-clock (and I can back that up with a project I worked on that was at CES - Kegputer - we had a segment on Discover channel, MSNBC, USAToday, and thousands of online publication stories just in one week of coverage - project got me a conversation with nVidia CEO) but if you combine the two, that would be insane.

Why would you want coverage? Uh, funding. Increased marketing dollars from the companies that sponsor you.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I thought Sham's GTX 580s with a GTX 480 soldered on to power the GTX 580 GDDR5 were works of art. Our rigs are meant to serve a specific function and they tend to do that very well. I couldn't imagine tearing down one of your rigs to swap a dead CPU(like I had to do at the event). Took me about 10 minutes of which was mostly spent re-wrapping the socket in toilet paper.

There are some things associated with overclocking that I believe normal people find at least intriguing and possibly beautiful. Some of the more elaborate cascades blow most of the watercooling hotrod rigs out of the water in industrial beauty.

Not everyone will agree on what is beautiful or aesthetically pleasing. Watching the plumes of nitrogen and the whine of the fans did way more for me than the case that was sitting next to my rig at the XS event