very same graphics card, mount a cooling
pot on it, make all necessary modifications
and then overclock it. That entire exercise
costs many times more than the retail price
of the graphics card, thus the endeavor is
largely exclusionary. No, that isn’t quite
what is needed.
As it is, the recent change in what
qualifies as a world record and what doesn’t
is a change that has been needed for
years on end. It’ll take a while for “world
record” to mean anything again. The term
at present is devoid of substance and if
anything has negative connotations. This
isn’t hard to pick up on as the various tech
sites that post these press releases attest
to this very point. The replies in those
forums range from indifference to outright
disapproval. Yes, the tendency of forums
or any medium of social communication
towards negativity is noted. However, there
is little to no pessimism when it comes to a
regular press release or announcement of a
new motherboard or GPU. Yet a showing of
what said motherboard or GPU can achieve
under the capable hands of competitive
overclockers, has anything but the desired
effect on potential buyers.
This is where I would propose many
more competitions, which are by structure,
familiar to us but impose limits that are
not exclusionary of most people. As stated
earlier, no LN2, no pots, just regular, all in
one units, and air coolers. No chilled water
or anything of the sort. Indeed, this would
be very boring for veteran overclockers, but
the odds are. Those that do well there are
likely to move on to the more challenging
competitions, where the competitors are
fewer as well as a result. We all appreciate
a graphics card that is ready out the box for
Liquid Nitrogen, but what does that mean
exactly to the tens of thousands of people
who are potential buyers of said graphics
card?
That it’s ready for the day they have
gathered all required knowledge and
supplementary hardware is not meaningful
at all. This can’t be a viable strategy as it
gains the customer nothing at all. However,
can you imagine a situation where, by way of
purchasing a graphics card, you gain ticket
entry to a competiti