OVERCLOCKING
ISOLATION
LET US OC IN PLACES FAR AND WIDE!
A
fter years of not being
active, I had a brief stint
at the annual rAge 2014
Expo down in South
Africa. As usual the
point was to expose the
hobby of overclocking
to the 30,000 and more
people that would filter
through the Coca-Cola Dome. As with all
overclocking demos there’s a myriad of
questions audiences will ask, they will go so
far as to suggest things you should be doing
and express concerns about it all.
As a person who has been within the
overclocking ecosystem for a decade, there
are so many things that I take for granted.
Information that I would think or believe
is so pervasive in the general enthusiast
community that some of these questions
should not ever come up. Obviously I was
wrong and that is good and bad for many
reasons.
That which we call overclocking, is
something that many of the competitive
overclockers and I included hold dear
even when more often than not we
are jaded by it all. With every passing
generation and platform of hardware, we
see ever increasing scores or decreasing
calculation times. We’ve seen HWBOT’s
transformation from a simple database
of scores and a sanctioned score keeper,
to a whole organization that has taken it
upon itself to mediate the inner workings of
this community with the wider enthusiast
community and vendors. It’s a difficult task
and one that is monumental in its scope.
In an ideal world there’d be tutorials on
every motherboard released or at the very
least a family of motherboards that would
guide beginners, intermediate users and
advanced users. Helping them extract the
best from their systems. All this would be
found on HWBOT or a parallel site, where
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the guides are written by the most prolific
overclockers of our time. At the very least
they would help formulate said guides