You recently joined the second
KPC Team (KPC Pro OC #2) with
some formidable team mates like
Gunslinger and Planet. Do you plan
on being just as competitive as the
1st team vying for the top spot or are
you in it for the fun of it and hoping
to maintain a relatively high profile
without necessarily aiming for the
number 1 position?
I felt I could contribute, so I thought
“why not?” I’m not really aiming for
the top spot here, but top 5 should be
doable at least. It depends a lot on me;
if I can be 1st in the Cinebench ranking
we’ll have at least one top spot.
If another vendor or vendors in
partnership with a website had
to start a competitor database to
HWBOT, something like what we had
with ripping.org. Do you envision such
a venture would succeed or do you
think it’s a waste of time?
Ripping was nice, and from
what I remember the owner quit
overclocking, which is why the site
was shut down – not because of “us”.
There’s definitely space for more
than one such site, but I hope that
site is something of its own and not
an HWBot rip-off. Basically, if we
succeeded, others can too. It even
makes us better in the long run,
because of the competition.
8 The OverClocker Issue 24 | 2013
I believe most of the top tier
overclockers would post on both sites
if there were two. I posted on ripping
and HWBot.
In your opinion, is overclocking
growing, dying or staying about the
same for the most part?
I feel it’s a bit different now, the huge
“wow”-factor from LN2 smoke and
crazy mods is gone. My gut feeling
is that the average Joe-overclocking
is growing, as it’s very easy to get
nice overclocks these days, but
it’s perhaps harder for people to
compete with the crazy binning that’s
going on these days.
Is there any thought or idea you would
like to extend to the community and
other readers?
I think people use the word “cheat”
too often in this hobby. Being a cheater
means you did something bad on
purpose, and most times it’s just
some sort of a misunderstanding –
for example enabling physX. Quite
frankly, if it was up to me anyone using
that word against someone without
that person being an actual cheater
should get some sort of punishment.
You can’t walk around accusing people
of murder in real life, and that’s more
or less what you’re doing in the OC
community when you call somebody a