Desktop PC Platform: Killed By Overclocking
@ 2010/08/12Enthusiasts have lost sight of the original purpose behind overclocking, which was made popular because it could make something slow become fast, thereby getting something more for your money. Then at some point the computer industry went from asking consumers to pay more for the faster products, to demanding you pay more for products you might be able to make faster. This article will focus on one of the lesser-known threats to the desktop PC platform: overclocking.
You are more then right, however, that having a big wallet is at the moment necessity number one for extreme overclocking, especially if you want to have a top ranking. On the one hand that's more than normal: this is just a very expensive sport/hobby; on the other hand this necessity is killing the fun for those who want to compete on a much lower level ~ ambient cooling. That's one of the subjects that is currently being discussed and put into a concept at hwbot at the moment.