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Sofoklis “Sofos1990”Oikonomou
Country Name and City:
I'm from Athens, Greece.
What language(s) do you speak and
how is your Mandarin Chinese so
far?
I speak Greek, English and a bit of
German. My Mandarin Chinese is
not good at all!
Your nick, “Sofos1990”, any special
meaning behind it and why that
nik?
There's nothing special behind it.
Sofos is my short name and 1990 is
the year I was born.
How long have you been
overclocking with LN2 and what is
it about LN2 that got you hooked?
6 The OverClocker Issue 35 | 2015
I've been overclocking since 2008.
The Greek oc community was
pretty strong back in day and I liked
the fact that you could get better
performance out of it.
Which was your first live
overclocking event, where was it
and how did you do?
I haven't been to many oc events.
They never got me excited to be
honest. The first one I attended
took place in Greece at a big
internet cafe. It was during the Z77
days and EVGA was sponsoring
it. I don't remember the scores
achieved there though. As for my
first competitive overclocking
event, that was during Computex
2014. It was the Intel competition
and one or two days later it was
the Kingston event that I took
part in for the Gigabyte team. If I
remember correctly, we placed
first at the Kingston HOT and at
Intel's event we won the most
stages on LN2.
You’ve been involved with
overclocking for some time.
Anything big that you can point to
that has changed over the years,
from when you started?
I feel that from 2008 until now
the level of the overclockers has
changed. Now there are more
good overclockers than before. As
a result of that the competition is
much stronger.