TheOverclocker Issue 36 | Page 8

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. 8 The OverClocker Issue 36 | 2015 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