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It was once a hidden gateway to magically higher framerates. Overclocking seemed an arcane art previously, a mystical set of inputs in a scary command window that conjured up extra performance where there had been none. The screws stayed tight on your PC case, nothing changed inside it. And yet here was Geoff Crammond’s Grand Prix 3, bold as brass, running at 30fps now instead of 24.

Overclocking culture’s changed though, hasn’t it? Its modern incarnation feels something more like political astroturfing, the disguising of a corporate-sponsored message as a grassroots

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