Kings of the Overclockers - a Joe Camel interview
Contents1. Introduction and General Questions2. Benchmarking Questions 3. Software Questions 4. Hardware Questions & Final Thoughts Back after a wee break, we bring our fourth interview in our Kings of the Overclocker series. As familar with frozen carbon dioxide as Mars is, Joe Camel is well known for using extreme measures to get the most out of PC hardware. Be prepared for a bit of a surprise when you see just what the price is for overclocking at the very of the playing field. General Questions to start things offYouGamers: Let's start this off with some background info - a little bit about yourself. What's your name (or nick, or both), what forums do you frequent, where are you located (physically, not virtually), what do you do to pay the bills in Real Life? Do you have an affiliation with any manufacturers that you'd like to disclose here? Give as much information as you're comfortable revealing, and feel free to throw in more tidbits. JoeCamel: Rich Tanner. OCForums.com and a few other overclocking/hardware forums. Northern Ohio. Part owner of the Family business. Would say more but these days I've probably said too much already.
YG: The first piece of hardware I overclocked was a RivaTNT2 card, and I learned the hard way that overclocked hardware needs better cooling. How long have you been overclocking computer hardware? JC: An AMD [Athlon XP] 2600 was the first thing I tried to OC. Actually I went about thing backwards, I was trying to cool my ATI Radeon 9700 better so I looked into water cooling and backed into OCF - the rest followed. I was an AC (Asheron's Call) addict MMORPG (or whatever they’re called), which led me to hardware upgrades, cooling and overclocking. YG: Benchmarking was destined to be competitive. When did benchmarking first become a competitive experience for you? JC: Probably back in the ATI [Radeon] 9800 days in the OCF Benching section.
YG: What got you started with overclocking? Was it a desire to get more value out of hardware, a challenge to push hardware to the limit, or sheer curiosity? JC: I'm a tinkerer by nature. As a child I was more interested in how the toy worked vs. just playing with it. Then it became the challenge to learn new skills (soldering/tweaking).
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