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Follow up with Alva “Lucky_n00b” Jonathan
Here’s to our first, rather different
kind of interview. You’ve heard from
him before, but this time we’d like to
ask some more pressing questions
that talk to the overclocker, tech
journalist and YouTuber that he is. If
you want to know the more generic
things about him, you can see our
previous interview in Issue 26 of
TheOverclocker. This time around
we wanted to peel back the layers
a little and see what he had to say
after so many years involved in
overclocking and related activities.
Without further delay let’s gets
right into it.
You’ve been overclocking for years
on end, you are now well and truly
a veteran. Winner of several live
shows and online competitions.
Does overclocking excite you the
way that it did say back in 2008 or
2007?
Yes! Even though I overclock on
daily basis, making OC guides and
reviews, I still learn something new
about overclocking and this is what
still excites me, every day. :)
What would you say is the biggest
change you’ve seen in overclocking
from say the last MSI MOA
competition up until now? Has the
absence of these large vendor
sponsored OC gatherings changed
OC world?
Ever since MOA 2014 ended
(MOA 2015 was online only, so MOA
2014 was the last big live MOA
overclocking competition), the
vendor-sponsored Big Worldwide
OC Competitions in the world are
only HyperX HOT (ended in 2015, no
2016/2017 version so far), G. Skill’s
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OC World Cup (ongoing), and Galax’s
OC Carnival (ongoing).
Even though the mainstream IT
medias seldom cover these events,
the large vendor-sponsored OC
events give something for the OC
Community to look forward to.
These are the ‘F1 like events’ of
overclocking in terms of the prizes
given and the scale of the events. So
losing these may have caused a few
overclockers to give up their desire
to be as competitive as before.
Between Indonesia and Brazil,
I don’t think there are any other
places in the world that see as many
amateur overclocking activities or
participants. What do you think it
is that attracts amateurs to these
overclocking workshops and events
in Indonesia specifically?
As far as community goes, I think
France are also doing well with their
FFOC. I honestly don’t know what
exactly attracts many Indonesian
users to come to OC workshops.
Maybe they saw an Indonesian
like me and Ekky get on top of the
rankings a couple times and they
are motivated by that? haha^^
I’m not sure if you view this the
same way as I do, but the last time
I checked the XOC rankings was
literally years ago (mainly look at
the other leagues now). It seems
these days the focus is on the
individual scores rather than the