Neo: It’s clear you’re after outright
performance, but honestly speaking,
it seems NVIDIA wants to control it
more, lock it down if you will. How
are you balancing that relationship
between keeping NVIDIA happy and
keeping your users happy?
Mad – It’s expertise! (laughs)
Alex – Actually I told NVIDIA that
the people that use this card are the
overclockers and they know that.
However, every time we spoke about
the extreme overclocking BIOS they
hesitated to give us any information,
because they are concerned about
the RMAs. Later on, I took them to
our event to see for themselves what
it was all about and now they are a
little more open minded to the idea,
and things are improving.
Neo: You can’t know about every
enthusiast, and there are many
competing cards. You know they can
go with the ASUS STRIX, you know
they can go with EVGA, and so on. So
why do you think they go to GALAX?
Alex - Because Hall of Fame
(everyone laughs)
Neo: From a technological point of
view you guys do spend a lot of money
and a lot of time to make it simpler
to get into overclocking through the
testing you do.
Alex - (Interjection) Have you been to
our OC Lab before?
Neo: Not yet.
Mad - He will, and then he will
understand.
Neo: OK, so I’ll leave that question to
be answered once I’ve seen it.
Alex - Many overclockers love to
come to our OC Lab, (Because it’s like
Christmas to us - Neo)
Neo: As you know the market is
eSports, gaming, and so forth. A lot
of vendors are slowly moving away
overclocking – there’s no longer
an MSI MOA, ASUS stopped, in fact
almost everyone stopped. That
said, you guys are going more and
more into the high end of extreme
overclocking. In fact, you are
probably the only ones left doing
extreme overclocking. What do you
know that the other vendors don’t
know that makes you keep doing this?
If it’s a secret don’t tell me.
Issue 43 | 2018 The OverClocker 07