was new and difficult, me with the
memoryextreme team used to look
at Hipro5, Shamino, kingpin, and
the Japanese Team with a lot of
attentiveness in the hopes of improving
our skills. I remember the first pots,
the first way to insulate hardware,
lots of time spent on vmodding
hardware.....I miss those days, but
maybe it’s just because I’m old and
because every single thing was pretty
new for me.(I suspect you’re not the
only one in this regard –Ed!)
Now everything is much more
“pro” and competitive. Manufacturers
build hardware specially made for
overclocking, and everybody tries to
get the best CPU and VGA, spending
a whole lot of money to bin them.
That is all competition, it is still
exciting for me, but … you know, i
prefer the old days.
Which is your most favourite
benchmark if any and what is your
least favourite and why?
My most favourite is 3dmark Vantage
because you need to tweak a lot; I’m
obviously talking about hardware
tweaking. You need a strong CPU,
strong GPU and if you run quad SLI
you really need to be a master to
control it all during the different tests.
My least favourite is AM3, probably
because i never really got a good
score in it.
What’s your current platform of
choice for your overclocking?
I play with different platforms at the
moment. To be in the PRO league,
you need to be versatile, SandyBridge
with p67, Gulftown and x58. I have
also started testing X79 with
SandyBridge-E.
I would also like to get a go at the
new AMD bulldozer. For video cards
I put a lot of effort in pushing the
GTX580 to its limits.
What is your current take on
online Futuremark or HWBOT
overclocking competitions? Do
you think they are helping to grow
overclocking or are they dividing
the overclocking scene?
This is a difficult question. I used
to overclocking for fun and yes, to
compete with other people.
Futuremark was the company that
grew the overclocking scene, so a
round of applause to them for starting
this. Hwbot pushed the overclocking
community in another direction, put
a lot of effort in building a fair playing
field for competing and bringing
overclocking to more people.
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