benching them on ln2 they make you
smile.
Other than overclocking, what
are your other interests and what
occupies most of your days?
I am really into sports. I am a huge
New York Yankee and New York Giants
fan. I played baseball and football
for a long time, all the way thru high
school.
I am also really close with my 5
year old niece Savanna and I spend
a lot of time with her, she is my best
friend, her Dad hasn’t really been
around, so I have tried to fill that role
for her. I really love her. She just
started Kindergarten so it’s been fun
experiencing that with her and my
Sister.
Other than that I try to work a lot
of overtime to afford all the ln2 and
hardware so I feel I am pretty busy
at all times. I am a Material Damage
Specialist for SCA Appraisal Company
and we are really busy right now.
As always games are what lead most
people into overclocking, was this
true for you as well and if so tell us a
little about that journey.
Well I have always had a gaming
console since I was a little kid. I used
so we need to make it a little more
exciting for this to really become fun
to watch live.
I think we should always keep the
online subs the way we have it now
but for live comps we definitely need a
different format.
When you overclock, are you
primarily doing it for points, for the
fun of it or is it a combination of the
two?
At first it was completely fun. My
first few ln2 sessions I didn’t even sub
them to hwbot. I just took screenshots
of precision x to show on overclock.
net and submit to some of the bench
threads there, it was all about fun.
Now I have started to care a little bit
more about the points. So I would say
it’s a mixture of both. I still have a ton
of fun doing it but I definitely try for the
most points possible and after a good
run I go right to hwbot on my tablet to
check what the ranking is while still
benching, it gets addicting to try and
move up in the rankings.
It takes a lot of work and doesn’t
happen overnight so it’s very
satisfying when you start to see some
good results.
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What is your favourite motherboard
and graphics card to overclock of all
time?
I would have to say the EVGA 780 ti
K|NGP|N Edition is my favourite card
of all time, it gave me so many fun
sessions. When you bench that card
you know that the pcb is not holding
you back and that you are getting the
absolute most out of the gpu. It feels
like it’s built like a tank and can take
and voltages you throw at it. It was a
landmark gpu.
I really love my Gigabyte x99 SOC
Champion. There is just something
about that board that is very special.
It feels like it was made to push hard
and not break a sweat. I love how it
only has 4 dimm slots and left off a
lot of features we don’t need for XOC.
I hope the other manufacturers will
follow and all have a XOC line like that.
It feels good that the design is
optimized for overclocking, like the
memory slots being closer to the
cpu for shorter traces. It was a very
innovative idea to do