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a couple of months Ivy Bridge will take the centre stage the same way LGA1155 crushed the LGA1156/ LGA1336 platform. Do you think there will ever be a time where you lose all interest in overclocking? From time to time I do step back and slow down (normally when the credit card is maxed) but walking away completely just would not happen. We have to ask, but to date how many 2600K CPU’s have you binned and what was your highest clocking one to date? I have managed to get through 29 2600k’s before the prices increase to silly levels and I could no longer justify the loss when selling them. The highest: 5721 MHz and the lowest: 4800 Mhz! What would you like to say to manufacturers as a whole who are reading this? Yeah at the moment stock is a big issue here so please don’t forget about us in South Africa when allocating stock to the distributors. Is there anything you would like to extend to the community and other readers? For sure, The Overclocking community in South Africa might be small but our door is always open and new guys to the scene are always welcome so if you’re interested in getting started or just want to come and watch one of our team sessions, just drop us a message and get in touch. What are you most looking forward to in 2012? Without doubt ivy bridge, Kepler and the hope that our local distributors could possibly carry stock within 3 month of a product launching. Outside of overclocking, what else are you as passionate about and spent an equal amount of time if not more doing? A good game of golf is always welcome and I am starting to get into a bit of racing (carts and RC cars) but most of my time is spent in front of a PC. What do you do for a living and what does your typical day look like? I work as the supervisor of the HLS department for one of South Africa’s leading developers and suppliers of Time & Attendance, Access control and Data collection solutions. All our hardware and software solutions are designed in house and my team is responsible for the QA testing, documentation and ultimately releasing the products to the sales team. Any final words? Yeah, thanks for the interview and the time you guys spend getting this mag published. Keep up the good work. *** Thanks to the 7970’s my rank is plummeting daily not sure if you want to change this at time of publish 2012 | Issue 18 The OverClocker 9