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QA with Hazzan Jadid Country Name and City: I live in the city of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, one of the major tourist cities in the country. What language(s) do you speak? I speak Indonesian, English and a little Arabic (lol) On which forums do you spend most of your time on? Primarily XtremeSystems, OCxtreme, Kingpingcooling, hwbot and many others more but I will generally visit any forum that has some discussions about hardware, especially overclocking. You partnered up with Rbuass, for MOA 2012; do you think you two work well together? We tried hard to work together to get a great result. Rbuass offered me a place as a team member and we all know he is a highly skilled overclocker. Even though we had never benched together before we tried our best. How long has it been since you started overclocking and what was it that got you started? I was introduced to overclocking in 2003 and that is actually when I heard about it first. I was always excited and amazed at the time by legendary overclockers such as Oppainter, Shamino, Macci, Pedro, K|NGP|N, Hipro 5, OPB ,Kinc and others showing fantastic results. I learned so much from all of them and continue to learn today. What is your single greatest or most memorable overclocking achievement? I think it was around one and 6 The OverClocker Issue 21 | 2012 a half years ago when I got the world record with the MSI GTX 580 Lightning in 3DMark11 and I shared with everyone how to run the MSI GTX 580 Lightning. My last memorable overclocking session was when I benched at Asus HQ at an Asus event with some legendary overclockers like Shamino, Fredyama and Andre. It was like a dream come true for me. Tell us about some of your favourite hardware right now. My favourite components above all are motherboards because they are at the centre of overclocking and VGA cards for sure. Some of my favourite brands are from ASUS ROG, MSI and ASRock after Nick Shih joined them as they seemed serious about building a performance board. As for PSUs I have some experience with Antec, Corsair and SilverStone units. They provide good PSUs for benching and overclocking for sure. Which is your favourite benchmark if any and what is your least favourite and why? I love all 3D Benchmarks, but my choice favourite is 3D vantage and 3DMark11. Simply because when you bench 3D you need better control. You need to control both CPU and VGA so it represents a better challenge for me. What is the hardware scene like in your country? Is hardware easily accessible and how is the pricing? Well Indonesia isn’t a big country with a huge population and subsequently large market for computer hardware.. You can however easily find any kind of component. The problem is sometimes new hardware will come here a little too late after its available in the US and