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(even though you are number one
in many of the benchmarks)?
EC: Overclocking has downsized
tremendously in the last few years,
including some vendors such as
Gigabyte giving up on completely.
For GALAX, we still insist on
overclocking and organize the
world's best overclocking event.
We need to give credit to our CEO,
Alex, as he is the one that still
pushes overclocking and without
his support, we would not be able to
come this far with overclocking as
we need to invest a lot of company
resources to just break one or two
world records. This as well as the
OC Lab require not only a lot of
money, but also time and resources.
Alex loves overclocking, and he
personally pushes to make all of
this possible. To me personally,
overclocking is not only an extreme
sport like F1 racing, but is also
helps to improve our hardware
and promote overclocking to the
general public and show them
that GALAX is dedicated to making
better hardware. On a whole it's
not just breaking records, it's also
brands building and marketing.
Neo: Who are your partners
in making this possible? I know
BitsPower helped with designing
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the LN2 container for some
of the graphics cards, but are
there any other vendors you
like working with that help you
with building these cards?
EC: We have been using a solution
from IR and Infineon. They have
really given us a lot of support, and
without their help we would not have
been able to break through some of
the immediate limitations such as
voltage. They opened their backend
for us, and without it we would have
to use the old methods of modifying
graphics cards. With the Hall of
Fame graphics cards, you don't need
to hard mod anything, you can just
run them out of the box. That's one
of the most amazing things about it.
Neo: Outside of the HOF graphics
cards you have memory, and
Mad said you actually ship a lot
of memory in China. In terms
of peripherals and so forth are
you still going to release it to the
rest of the world? For example,
your keyboards and mice and
other gaming products?
EC: Memory is one of our key
products that we are promoting as
we have a good relationship with
Samsung because of the graphics
card business, so we were able to
buy B-die ICs direct from Samsung.
Max has expertise on memory, and
we are working closely with one of
the leading memory suppliers on
sorting ICs and making the best
overclocking memory possible.
Our overclocking memory
is doing really well alongside
G.Skill, and now we are also doing
motherboards. We are working
with (Red Bull???) and Intel on an
overclocking motherboard. We hope
we will be able to make it as a final
product, but it will have to pass
our requirements for overclocking
capabilities. Other than that, I
doubt we will have any Hall of Fame
products outside of graphics cards,
memory and motherboards.
We have made some Hall of Fame
branded keyboards in the past,
but management's decision was to
split our peripheral business from
our graphics card business. We
are using a different brand name
for all of our gaming peripherals
including keyboards, mice and
headphones, so we will no longer
be using our Hall of Fame brand
on gaming peripherals. We want to
make our peripherals more lifestyle
and gaming oriented and we think
the Hall of Fame brand might not
be suitable. This brand is already
available to some Asian markets and
is designed by a different team. We