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'Hello'
'How are you ?'
'Fine Thanks you.'
We are here for a few questions. So have have been at the MSI Overclocking Arena.
So you perform well, you are second. You where alone, without Hipro, but Gorillakos helps you.
yes, a lot.
And, you are here for a special interview and we have a few questions for you.
okay
So first of all, please introduce yourself, your name, your age, your team, your country etc.
My name is George Pavlidis. My nickname is GPRHellas. I'm from Athens, Greece.
My age ... hmm lets say, I'm one year younger than Hipro5.
Haha Good trick
I'm in H.O.T., everybody knows H.O.T., the team, the greek team.
Everything I know, I learned from Hipro. Hipro is my teacher.
In my country, cold is prohibited you know.
But we like cold temperatures and it's quite funny that we live in a very sunshine country
and our hobby deals with very low temperatures.
Even what I drink is cold with ice.
But we have a lot of warmth in our heart you know? The spirit is warm...
This is a joke. Because, I knew about computers.
Hipro has been a friend for 15 years, and I didn't know that this was his hobby.
So two years and a half ago, I just.. I don't know how, I came to a party in a big store in Greece.
And Hipro was there and showed to people what you can do with overclocking you know ? A party.
And, I know this guy but you know, if you have a lot of ln2, you don't realize the person behind exactly...
And then, I found out that my best friend, for 15 years, was on top of this whole world.
Or almost! He's famous and he is responsible for this envolvment.
And that's why he told you ..
After that, he told me... let's say, I knew his secret second life you know.
Because I had been his friend for 15 years and he had never told to me about this hobby. I don't know why...
Okay, so this has been, something like, 2 years that you've known about overclocking ?
Yes about two years, two years and a half at the maximum.
No, before I worked in a radio station. I had my own for 6 years.
But the things didn't go well, so I gave it up. And I switched to another hobby.
So overclocking is your main hobby now.
And fishing too, but not with Hipro.
It's a very expensive hobby. You need a lot of money. And especially if you don't have sponsors.
Belive it or not, the truth is that until now, I have never got anything from a sponsor.
The only thing that I have got until now is a motherboard, Blackops (FOXCONN) from shamino.
This is the only thing.
It's crazy!
It costs a lot of money and that's why in august I decided to quit all this because it's too expensive.
For my life and... Yeah, really, you can't carry on if you don't have any sponsor.
I realized this, it's a hard decision but ... I believe I'll do.
Even if you find a sponsor ?
I don't know, maybe I'll think about it.
Ehh excuse me, but I don't remember that all this from MSI started 8 months before.
I didn't knew I would win the previous Europe contest, and of course alone, with only 8 hours of preparation.
8 hours because I found out that hipro couldn't afford to come the last hour.
So I was really upset and I .. I really came with no hope .
'But you did a good job! You arrived second.' 'Yes'
And what was your monthly budget for overclocking?
Let's say, last year, I spent almost 11000€. I have taken all this out from my taxes report you know.
'okay'
'I hope my wife will not listen to this...'
Overclocking, except the fact that it is expensive, needs a lot of time. Yes, I spend a lot of hours.
But I'm working, so I overclock on Saturdays okay. Yes it's very difficult.
You must spend a lot of time, for testing...
Tweaking, getting the last score...
Yes, getting all the information, from friends, from the internet and to combine them all.
You really must set every possible tweak you can imagine...
There is not only the time you have to spend with this hobby but also money.
And, speaking of friendship, this is another possibility to lose friends.
A friend of yours doesn't know exactly what overclocking is, and you tell him what you do,
he thinks you're a crazy man.
All you spend, such a lot of money, so much time for what?
All of my friends who don't know that hobby tell me : "What do you get for this?"
Yes, and what do you answer them ?
You get an internal happiness... You're doing the right thing. You discover new things.
There is nothing you could answer to this. You do it, you do it right, if you do it right, you're happy.
You're happy, your friend is happy if he's a friend of yours. Ok? Your real friend.
I invited many Greek friends, to join me, after I got into that hobby you know.
And I think all of them will become very great overclockers in the future.