I N T E R V I E W // G A L A X
same approach to motherboards as you
did to graphics cards, only producing the
best if you do make them?
Alex - We are working hard with
Intel right now, but we don’t have any
history with them so it takes time, but
we will try hard and I think we will.
Neo: Why was building an OC lab
long ago so important for you when
others such as MSI didn’t have one?
Why was it important to have an OC
lab instead of building the card and
sending it out to some overclockers?
Why did you have to have it inside?
Alex - It represent our company. We
spend money on overclocking including
the lab separate from our headquarters.
We made sure that every GALAX
employee knows that overclocking is
important to us. Overclocking is our
mainframe if you will and we do tell
overclockers about it, they can come
play in our lab.
Neo: Everyone wants Hall of
Fame, but it’s difficult to get
because here is more demand
than supply. Eventually you will be
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available on all the continents?
Alex - I have a question for you
instead. Do you think Hall of Fame is
for all series or only the super high-end
series? Do you think the Hall of Fame
should include the 1070 and 1060 as
well?
Neo: Personally, I think it’s right up
there at the top
Alex – But what is it that comes to
mind? Should it be only one product
right at the top or a series?
Neo: For me it’s like this: You know
how BMW can have the M6, M5, M4, but
they’re all M. They’re all the top of their
range. If I have a 1060 HOF it’s the best
1060 there is. It’s in the same family, just
smaller, like the M1, M2, M4. That’s how
I see it, I don’t know if that’s how you see
it, perhaps you see just one product like
one McLaren P1 and then everything
else.
Alex - But what do overclockers think
of it? Do they think it’s just one product
as the top of the top?
Neo: Right now, I believe they think it’s
one product. Not one product per se, but
one brand - the HOF brand. It’s difficult
to get, but if you get one you have the
best. If you can’t, you go with the EXOC
or something like that, but it’s always in
the back of your mind that you want that
Hall of Fame.
Alex - So do you think we carry on in
this fashion or should we change it?
Neo: Keep what you have because it’s
been working. Don’t change something
that’s working phenomenally. That’s
pretty much it.
Alex - Thanks for your advice.
Neo: Thank you very much. You’re
actually an amazing company, more so
talking to you than inside. Every time
you talk to a president, director or CEO,
they tell you what they think you want
to hear and not necessarily the truth.
You seem very honest, and people can
connect with that. You mean what you
say and the company is built around
that, and you have an actual separate
OC lab. A whole separate place, and
not just a corner somewhere. Your
expansion is based on quality and
not just making a mouse because
everyone wants a mouse. The fact
that you stopped when you saw the
quality is very different than any other
vendor I suppose that’s why I’m here
(everyone laughs).
Mad - Thank you very much.
[ The Overclocker ]