Performance tuning Memes

Remember when you could actually overclock your hardware without needing a degree in electrical engineering and a liquid nitrogen setup? Yeah, those days are gone. The GPU and CPU manufacturers have figured out they can just squeeze every last drop of performance at the factory, then ship you hardware that's already running on the edge of thermal collapse. That glorious 2025 setup with the tweaked BIOS and overclocked VRAM? By 2026, you're getting factory-locked chips running undervolt with reduced power limits because apparently silicon degradation is now a feature, not a bug. The DIY PC enthusiast scene is basically on life support. Why let users have fun tinkering when you can just lock everything down and sell them the "next gen" model next year? The hardware equivalent of shipping code with all the debug flags removed and the config files encrypted. Fun times.