Meet the people pushing their PCs to the limit @ PCGamer

I caught a link to this story on my FB stream and thought it would be a good thing to share.  Vivi is an Extreme overclocker from South Africa, very humble and extremely good at overclocking.  Sure some of that can be attributed to quality of hardware but only if you know how to use it. 

Frames per second are an afterthought for Goddy ‘Vivi’ Roodt, South Africa’s champion overclocker who placed second in June’s G.SKILL OC World Cup and once coaxed 6.7 GHz from an i7 4770K—almost twice its base clock speed. He is one of a breed of elite overclockers who scour component lines for perfect specimens and cool them using dry ice or liquid nitrogen for an edge on competitive benchmarking leaderboards. 

“That 4770K was a cool story,” Roodt says. “Some guy used it 24/7, and the box price is about $270. When I saw how well it performed, I messaged that guy and said, ‘I’ll give you $1,000 for your CPU.’ He was quite happy about that!”

I remember that story and is one overclockers tell all the time.  Funny thing is that grand he spent on the CPU paid for numerous trips around the world (Las Vegas, Taiwan, etc), won him prize money and even landed some sponsorships.  Of course now everyone has moved to Skylake and thus the clock has been reset.

Related Web URL: http://www.pcgamer.com/meet-the-people-pushing-the...