Overclocking = Science, Art or Craft?

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Hi all,

Just though I would put this out there. .

I am just reworking my CV and want to add a little *spin*

How do you see overclocking or the genral practice of tweaking/tuning a system to its maximum performance?
  • Science
  • Art (or Dark-Art)
  • Craft

Or a combination of the above?
 
Hi,

thanks for the replies, some good comments there. Just to clear the CV thing up it is aimed *soley* at a company that builds and sells PC's, so really they would kinda know what overclocking/tweaking is but I was just looking for the right angle :)

It's beyond a hobby for me now as I make a nice chunk of cash from it every year, so I guess I fall into the *part-time professional* bracket I guess.

Still I think the overclocking/tweaking/system boosting skills most of us here possess are good skills to have in the right work profession, I just wasn't sure how to convey that on a C.V :o
 
xsnv said:
Well it's not a art because you can't be talented at overclocking.

It's not a science either since your'e not modelling or investigating (with the aim to describe quantitatively/qualitatively) phenomena.

If it was a science you would need to know "why" it worked which would require degrees in electonics and thermodynamics.

If i were an art then you could just be good at it i.e. some people would just be better at it than others
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You can't be talented at overclocking? hmmm. .

You say its not a science because your not investigating, hmmm what about the first overclockers? and as for having a degree in electronics and thermodynamics, I would say some of us are not far off this . . .

and you say its not an Art because some people would be better than others? well some people are better than others at overclocking/tweaking etc?
 
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