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QA Pierŕe“QuantumX” van Rhyn Country Name and City: South Africa, Cape Town What language(s) do you speak in addition to English if any? Afrikaans Your nickname QuantumX, does it mean anything and how did it come about? When I was younger I was really interested in nuclear physics and one day QuantumX popped into my head and from then on it was the nickname I used at local LAN’s and eventually for all my online accounts. When did you start overclocking and on what platform was it on? I started overclocking when I won a 8800GTS 320MB Graphics card in a competition. I read reviews about the card before it shipped and in the reviews they tested the overclocking ability of the card which introduced me to it all. I had an AMD Sempron 3400+ which had a single core and only did 1.8GHz on an MSI K9N Neo motherboard (nForce 550 chipset). I soon realized the CPU was bottlenecking my GPU so I eventually overclocked it to around 2.4GHz. The CPU seemed to have more in it but unfortunately the motherboard didn’t have any voltage adjustment options in the BIOS. On which forum or forums do you spend the most time or share your overclocking results? I spend a lot of time on a SouthAfrican forum called Carbonite, and then I also joined the Overclock.net not too long ago How many live overclocking events 6 The OverClocker Issue 38 | 2016 have you attended if any and if not, which ones would you like to take part in? The only one was recently at the HWBot World Tour in Cape Town . Do you overclock competitively or do you perhaps enjoy pushing hardware and/or setting your own goals? I’m more the type of overclocker that enjoys pushing each piece of hardware to the max, but I do check the rankings beforehand so I definitely have a competitive side too. Who has been your most inspiring overclocker since you started? In the beginning I didn’t really know any of the overclockers since I was just doing my own thing but later on when I got to know Vivi, he taught me a lot and he is always approachable. Most overclockers have a “golden time” or period in which they believe overclocking was at its best. Do you have such a time period and if so, when was it or do you prefer the present climate of competitive overclocking? I would say Socket 775 was a great time for overclocking, as you could literally overclock any CPU you could get your hands on. People didn’t need to overclock to compete in rankings or to beat anyone else, you could just take what you have and overclock it for free performance or extra FPS in your favourite game. To me that was always the most rewarding type of overclocking. Who do you usually have overclocking sessions with if anyone and how often are you having these LN2 or Dry ice sessions? Vivi and I have sessions from time