What was the last bit of overclocking
you did and when was it?
Since leaving MSI in August last
year I’ve actually not overclocked at
all, except for maybe some help with
troubleshooting at the following
MOA 2013.
Any hardware you’re looking forward
to using this year?
X99 and 8-core Haswell-E for sure,
I’ve been missing real improvements
of the high performance segment
pretty much since the X79 launch
almost three years ago. NVIDIA’s
upcoming high-end Maxwell GPUs
on TSMC 20 nm process is also
something that I look forward to
trying out.
I suspect I know the answer for
this but what is your favourite
motherboard and graphics card to
date?
Actually I’d have to say the Asus
Rampage III Extreme combined with
Gulftown 980/990X. This was for a
long time a very solid platform I used
together with Kinc for several 3DMark
records. When it comes to graphics
there’s no competing with the MSI
Lightning series. The most fun for
me was the MSI GTX 480 Lightning
which required figuring out GPU
overclocking on LN2 all over again due
to Fermi’s insane power density.
What is your single greatest or
most memorable overclocking
achievement?
All of the overclocking competitions
have been a blast, but the most
memorable event has to be at the last
moments of MOA 2010. ME4ME and
I were overclocking the MSI GTX 480
Lightning at hundreds of MHz higher
than the others and everyone around
us was wondering what the hell we
were doing with all those hair dryers.
We figured out that if we kept the
PCB from freezing and the thermal
paste fresh though thermal cycling
down to roughly -50*C at high load
after a crash we could hit really high
frequencies. It resulted in us winning
our second consecutive MSI MOA
competition and an infamous after
party that got a bit out of hand. (:D)
Anything you’d like to see changed
in the overclocking community right
now?
I’d like manufacturers to be more open
to the people outside the inner circle
and release tools to enable everyone
in the community to have the same
chance to compete. Of course you’ll
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