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started with overclocking the right
way with DICE and then LN2. The
rest as they say is history.
with with Andrew “dRweEz” Roberts
Country Name:
South Africa
What language(s) do you speak?
English
On which forums do you spend
most of your time on?
I am not very big on spending time
on forums but I do try and to keep
up to date with the happenings
(when I can find time) on HWBot,
xtremesystems, Kingpin cooling,
Prophecy and Below Zer0 forums
You’re obviously a very competitive
overclocker, where are you
currently ranked and what are you
hoping to achieve by the end of
2012?
At the start of January I was ranked
9th in the OCL and 1st in South
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Africa but with the launch of the
7970’s I have dropped down to 22nd
*** place in the OCL but remained at
the top of the South African league.
If the hardware god’s bless me with
some good hardware my target for
2012 is the top spot in the OCL
When did your interest in
overclocking start and how did it
start?
Same old story as everyone
else, overclocking was a natural
progression from an interest
in all things “computer” and
wanting to squeeze every last
bit of performance out of budget
hardware. back in the day it started
with trying squeeze out a few
extra FPS in the Quake time demo
benchmark at LAN’s but it was
not until I moved to Gauteng and
was introduced to Deadmeat that I
What is your single greatest or
most memorable overclocking
achievement ever?
LOC last year was a really
humdinger and by far the most
memorable to date. Throughout the
competition Deadmeat and myself
re-designed and refined our home
grown GPU pot several times to
cope with the huge amount of heat
the 580 lightning was producing,
along with the discovery of the
“crack” syndrome that we were all
trying to deal with. At the start the
most I could clock the card to was
1200 MHz using an old slim pot but
by the end of the competition my
final submission I had managed to
push the card to 1620Mhz with a
score of P12440.
The 3DMark11 World record was
broken several times during LOC
twice by me but in the end I was 59
points short and placed 2nd behind
SuicidePhoenix who in the 11th
hour submitted a winning score of
P12499 with his lightning clocked to
1625Mhz… what a rush
To date what has been your favourite
Motherboard and GPU to date?
Tough question, over the years there
have been several favourite boards