to time and DrWeez has also been
around in those sessions a couple
of times. We only get to do it once
every few months unfortunately.
If you could only pick a single brand
of components to buy hardware
from, which brand would that be and
why is that?
I would say Asus is a brand that
makes very good components allround. Their motherboards and
GPU’s are top class, all their other
products are good and they look the
part too.
What is your favourite platform and
which is your least favourite?
My favourite would be Socket
1150 as it’s the platform I have the
most experience on with extreme
cooling. I can’t think of one that
would be my least favourite as every
platform has its own challenges, but
if I have to choose one I would say
Socket 2011 since it’s very expensive
and to me that doesn’t help make
overclocking beginner-friendly
Of all the hardware you’ve ever
owned, what is your favourite of
all time? (This isn’t limited to just
motherboards or graphics cards,
but CPUs, memory, storage etc.)
I personally enjoyed my i7-2600K
Sandy Bridge a lot since I was only
using conventional cooling and
could get pretty close to the guys
using extreme cooling. I was able to
run 3DMark06 at just over 5.4GHz
if the ambient temperature was
low enough. Equal to the i7-2600K
would be the very good bin Pentium
G3258 I have, it’s probably one of the
top 3 non-ES G3258’s in the world.
I had one even better but it died
unfortunately.
Between 3D benchmarks and
the more CPU/memory focused
ones such as XTU and SuperPi,
GeekBench etc., which ones are you
partial to?
I’m a bit divided on this one. 3D
Benchmarks are very rewarding
since you can see the actual FPS
increase as you overclock the
system. With 2D benchmarks the
results are very abstract and the
units of measurement aren’t always
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