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to time and DrWeez has also been around in those sessions a couple of times. We only get to do it once every few months unfortunately. If you could only pick a single brand of components to buy hardware from, which brand would that be and why is that? I would say Asus is a brand that makes very good components allround. Their motherboards and GPU’s are top class, all their other products are good and they look the part too. What is your favourite platform and which is your least favourite? My favourite would be Socket 1150 as it’s the platform I have the most experience on with extreme cooling. I can’t think of one that would be my least favourite as every platform has its own challenges, but if I have to choose one I would say Socket 2011 since it’s very expensive and to me that doesn’t help make overclocking beginner-friendly Of all the hardware you’ve ever owned, what is your favourite of all time? (This isn’t limited to just motherboards or graphics cards, but CPUs, memory, storage etc.) I personally enjoyed my i7-2600K Sandy Bridge a lot since I was only using conventional cooling and could get pretty close to the guys using extreme cooling. I was able to run 3DMark06 at just over 5.4GHz if the ambient temperature was low enough. Equal to the i7-2600K would be the very good bin Pentium G3258 I have, it’s probably one of the top 3 non-ES G3258’s in the world. I had one even better but it died unfortunately. Between 3D benchmarks and the more CPU/memory focused ones such as XTU and SuperPi, GeekBench etc., which ones are you partial to? I’m a bit divided on this one. 3D Benchmarks are very rewarding since you can see the actual FPS increase as you overclock the system. With 2D benchmarks the results are very abstract and the units of measurement aren’t always Issue 38 | 2016 The OverClocker 7