I got a chance to do a short interview with the well-known and well-respected Tony AKA Big Toe from OCZ...

Tony, how long have you been overclocking now?

6 Years. I first overclocked my P80 Cyrix because I was bored and trying to find something interesting to do. I also recalled having great fun overclocking the Slot A Athlon Processors.

How did you get immersed in the overclocking community?

I was at ABXZone forums back then and I and a couple of mates were contributing relevant information for the people there and we did up some nice BIOS Mods. Then Ryan from OCZ approached me to work for OCZ.

You've done a hell lot of very informative guides for the whole community. Which one was you most satisfied with?

It was the PAT Enabling guide for the ASUS P4P800 motherboard, and it basically made the P4P800 run as fast as the P4C800!

Which was your most satisfactory overclock thus far?

It must being the second guy in the world to hit DDR500 CL2-2-2-5, on a 845 chipset motherboard. I was slower by one day than a Japanese overclocker.

How do you find the overclocking scene right now?

It's defintiely grown huge, but what I would like to see is more people contributing to the community, sharing information. Many such as FreeCableGuy, EVA2000, Hipro 5 contributes actively to the community, but more are less forthcoming.

Where do you think overclocking is headed?

Well for the Memory side of things, I think it is going to be like what happened with NetBurst, people are going to get over the huge numbers and get back to running less than maximal speeds but at much lower latency, which is the biggest influence on performance.

What product are you looking forward to most right now?

Definitely OCZ's new power supply which will be what all the enthusiasts really want! Not just because I'm the PM for it but because it will truly stand out from the rest. I'm sorry I can't release further details until a later date. You can also expect the unexpected... OCZ Gaming Mice at really affordable prices, etc.

What do you think of the Benchmarking community as a whole?

I think the current HWBot should be categorized according to cooling, so that those on air/water can also compete for top spots, instead of totally overwhelmed by the Liquid Nitrogen Benchers. Probably 3 seperate categories will set things at a much more level playing field. OCZ will look into giving out prizes to support those who put in effort to improve their benchmarking scores in time to come once the system is set up.