TheOverclocker Issue 17 | Page 8

Having judged several high profile live overclocking competitions, if you had it your way, what would you change at live events if anything at all? The CPU binning process, to get 30 CPUs for the contestants, i think that’s 300 CPUs that need to be tested on LN2 just to give to the contestants a truly homogeneous group of samples. That is what makes the competition more unbiased, finding CPUs which have no more than 50MHz between them. What was your favourite live competition of all time and what made it stand out from the others? MOA, because it is huge, it is really a championship with a selection all over the world that gains you access to the grand finale. It is a big investment made by MSI to the OC community to all. What do you consider as the future of overclocking? It will change; the approach to overclocking is dependent on the evolution of the platforms. However there will still be a lot of people which will enjoy pushing the different platforms over the limit. I can’t imagine though the evolution of the OC community. It is growing and I would like it to became bigger and bigger. I hope that manufacturers will continue to have an interest in the OC community and develop even tighter relationships with it. Do you think there will ever be a time