Yeah, that's because it's gone. The era of useful overclocking is dead. CPU and GPU vendors push well into and past the parts of the volt frequency curve that we used to now. Some of them even push past reasonable stability in the name of maximum speed. Hi Intel. GPUs have gotten way more expensive and Nvidia in particular has so many SKUs now that there's always a "get more silicon" option at a lower price than an overbuilt card would be.
There's no real reason to overclock anymore. Yeah sure you can tune memory timings and maybe squeeze a few % out there, but that's purely an enthusiast pursuit. You're not going to get real noticeable gains by spending a weekend under the hood anymore. Turn on fancy turbo, spend more money on cooling, it goes a bit faster and uses more power. That's it.
The actual segment of people doing competitive overclocking has always been very small, and limited to the kind of people that have money to spend on computer hardware with the intent of it no longer functioning in the near future. It's tiny. It's a stupid expensive hobby that fell out of fashion about a decade ago. Even when it was popular, it's main goal was marketing. "Hey our stuff overclocks really well, or helps you overclock this other thing better!" but now it's irrelevant. Thus the marketing is irrelevant too. I'm surprised ANYONE still gets sponsored to pour LN2.
It's dead, and that's ok. We can move on.
I still want to make the cohost overclocking competition at some point, focusing on messing with old, cheap, hardware and kind of showing off what overclocking was compared to what it is now. But that also needs to happen during the (northern hemisphere) winter so people can just run the thing outside for extra cooling.
