getting the second place submission
for GTX 480 in Xtreme Preset! I
was extremely excited, yelling and
getting hyped up.
Whom do you bench with primarily
if anyone, or are you a lone
overclocker mostly?
I usually bench while talking to
friends in “Telegram” or Skype /
Teamspeak 3. It's usually useful
to keep a few friends on hand that
are experienced as well, in case
you have issues with something.
Sometimes you're doing something
wrong and don't realize, even if it's
something small like forgetting to
set a voltage in BIOS, or forgetting
to change priority of a benchmark in
windows.
If you could only pick a single
component vendor to buy from,
which vendor would that be and why
is that?
Out of all the companies I can
come up with off the top of my head,
I think I'd have to go with ASUS.
I've had 5 ASUS monitors, an ASUS
GPU and an ASUS motherboard. My
experience with them has always
been great, and they offer such a
wide range of products that I think
they'd be best suited for this.
Since you started overclocking,
what is your favourite platform and
which is your least favourite?
I'd have to say my favourite
platform is Z170 so far, but I
think it's partly to do with my
motherboard. I've had a great
experience in the past few days
since I got it in the mail, everything
has seemed pretty straight forward
in the BIOS and being able to use
windows 10 for any benchmark
I want is quite awesome. (I'm a
sucker for windows 10, I think it
looks fantastic.) Hearing a few of
my friends experience with Z170
though, it seems like my honeymoon
phase with it may be over soon when
I really dive into things. So I expect
maybe in a few weeks my opinion on
Z170 may be different.
My least favourite might actually
be Z97, it seemed like no two XOC
sessions were the same on my
motherboard. It seemed to struggle
with tight timings at high RAM
speeds, where it'd have trouble
posting every time. Sometimes I'd
have to restart 5-10 times to get it to
post and boot properly. Drove me up
a wall at times when it was real late
with not much sleep!
Of all the hardware you’ve ever
owned, what is