Overclockaholics Forums - Interview: OC legend Vince "Kingpin" Lucido

This is a nice interview because it goes more into Vince's business and his most current feelings about the latest in overclocking. :)

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It is no secret that cooling is one of the keys to pushing the envelope in extreme overclocking and benchmarking competitions. Nobody arguably makes better LN2 [liquid nitrogen] containers than Kingpin Cooling. If you by any chance wonder why the company is named Kingpin Cooling and Vince's nick is k|ng|pin, the reason is quite simple - try to register the company using non-standard alphabet character and you'll be in for a ride. In this extensive interview, K|ngp|n spoke with BSN* while recovering from some very painful tattoo work.

BSN*: What was your first experience with computers?
k|ngp|n: It was with an IBM PC, which was quite a while ago, which my parents got me. I fiddled around with it; played some games but the games were super-weak back then. I actually wrote a few little mod programs or little animations which I did when I was younger, like nine or ten. Then I got into action sports like skateboarding and snowboarding and went away from computers for a while.

BSN*: When and why did you start to overclock? Can you remember what system it was?
k|ngp|n: When I first got back into computers, I got into Unreal Tournament. I don't remember where I was; I think I was at a friend's house. So I went and bought a computer, a HP prebuilt gaming computer. I set up and started playing games, pretty much spent all my time online playing games; 5, 6, 7 hours a day and sometimes even longer. And every once in a while my computer would start running really badly and I started to visit sites like Xtreme Systems and Futuremark. I visited mostly just those sites but I did visit some AMD based sites. It was mostly to get my computer to run as fast as possible.

BSN*: What prompted you to start using extreme cooling?
k|ngp|n: I really liked phase change, you just set up the unit and you can sit back and relax. Because I was playing games it was more practical, you don't have to worry about it, you don't have to babysit the pots but it was not reliable for overclocking. I started getting into cascades and the cascades started breaking. There is always some issue with the load temps, some line breaking. I eventually started to realize that benching out of containers whether they are dry ice or liquid nitrogen [LN2] would be better. But I went to LN2 right away, I did use dry ice but you're limited, you can only use so much of it. So why even bother? I chose to go with LN2 because I could go as cold or as long as I wanted. I basically could control the temperatures and just keep them at whatever I wanted by a combination of sitting there and babysitting the pot and controlled pouring. I could keep the CPU temp at one degree below where the thing [CPU] shuts off and if it meant 100 more MHz, why the hell wouldn't I? I then started to work on containers with a lot more buffer on the bottom. Massive, massive buffered designs so the temperature swing would be really slow and I realized it would be really easy to keep within a certain temperature. So, it was just an evolution I guess

More about the interview with a full transcript here...
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...in-lucido.aspx