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QA 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.