780 sessions. Perhaps the EPOWER Classified VRM board (hard to find those) and maybe a couple new GPU pots. What is your favourite graphics card and platform to date? Definitely NOT the GTX Titan with the stock VRM. My favourite GPU right now is the GTX 780 with a custom design VRM. I’ve just tried MSI 780 Lightning so far, but I’m looking forward to trying the EVGA GTX 780 Classified and Galaxy GTX 780 HOF when they’re available. What is your single greatest or most memorable overclocking achievement? That’s when me and my buddy Ekky won the first MOA back in 2008. At the time, Ekky and I were still beginners in the competitive overclocking world. We never used LN2 before (we mainly used dry ice) and just tried to ‘guess’ the temperature sweet spot for the CPU and NB. An epic thing happened as we both forgot 8 The OverClocker Issue 26 | 2013
our NB pot mounting. As such, Ekky had to hold the NB Pot using a paintbrush for the whole competition. Fortunately, the LN2 on the NB meant it could run a high FSB and we got ourselves a nice CPU compared to the rest of the guys (a 6.2Ghz E8600 pi 1M, and 6 Ghz 3DMark2001SE if I remember correctly) which lead to the win. Luck was a big factor that day but it felt good to finally win something. Are you currently participating in the HWBOT Pro OC Cup and if so, how is it going for you and your team? Yeah, I’m participating in the Pro Cup for my website, JagatReview. com. In the first cup, it was very hard to find vendors who want to sponsor us and in the end I decided to enter without sponsors at all. The main challenge of doing the Pro Cup for me is finding the time to bench and often found myself benching at the last minutes of the competition. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best for the next round!
MSI’s MOA is taking place in October and you’ve qualified once again, do you have any predictions for the event? I’m lucky to be in the MOA Finals this year, and I honestly didn’t expect it. It is also nice to see some new faces at this year’s MOA. I suspect Xtreme Addict and OC_windforce benched a lot with Haswell and 780s, and that will probably give them the advantage in the competition. I believe either one of them has a good chance of winning MOA. After all this time and having previously won the competition, do you think this competition is still valuable to the community and in growing overclocking? Certainly, it is nice to have online overclocking competitions, but sometimes it’s more interesting to have a live OC since many unexpected things can happen. It’s a good for community members to meet and socialize in real-life. Year after year, MSI has constantly provided overclockers with live