Looking for a paid overclocking mentor

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I've always been interested in building computers (since 1994) - never had the money to really do much but now that I am an adult, I have a bit of disposable income.
Back in 2019 - right before the chip shortage, inflation and other insanities - I built me a decent gaming PC.
When planning my PC, I went for overclockable components - but I've never done any overclocking, ever!

In my 30 years of computing, including some education in electronics engineering, I always saw overclocking as a very shifty field, with new terms and tools popping up every year, making the old stuff and old knowledge kinda useless.

Now, I have so much anxiety about this topic that I am scared to approach it. It all feels like I am not starting at the right place.

During my career as a software engineer (not a very good one, LOL), I've sometimes been able to find people who would teach me against money for their time.
It worked out great!
I can refer you to my other mentors to attest that I am a great dude to be spending time with and very respectful of the business relationship between the mentor and the student.

So, if you are a very experienced overclocker who knows his stuff through and through, and you have a mentor/buddy attitude - why don't you contact me in PM and we could set up something?

I know people are weirded out by atypical requests - but keep an open mind :) Hopefully the mods don't get scared by this topic and if they do - sorry if I've done something I shouldn't have.

PS: Just to emphasize, I can't really study from static resources (online sites, books) because of so much anxiety built up - I just want to chat about overclocking with someone!
PS2: I realise this isn't going to be cost-efficient to me. Maybe I'll get like 5% boost on my 2019 hardware after 6 lessons, LOL :D - but it's not about making savings here, it's about learning, developing my hobby, getting into things and having fun
 
Hopefully the mods don't get scared by this topic
Aaarghh! Help!! :eek:

Mods will be fine, we cuddle together regularly for comfort. It's company policy which is the thing, so we'll take a peek at that and let you know—but no worries either way, and thanks for asking :)

On your topic—why do you want to overclock?

I've built PCs since '99, and I always purposely avoid overclockable components when it saves money or heat. Performance boost is typically marginal, and it takes a lot of foostering around and testing to find out how far you can push the overclock before your PC becomes unstable.

I say this just in case you think OC is something wonderful you're missing out on—it's not. But if it's a learning exercise or new hobby, then of course K yourself O and best of luck with it :)
 
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Aaarghh! Help!! :eek:

Mods will be fine, we cuddle together regularly for comfort. It's company policy which is the thing, so we'll take a peek at that and let you know—but no worries either way, and thanks for asking :)

On your topic—why do you want to overclock?

I've built PCs since '99, and I always purposely avoid overclockable components when it saves money or heat. Performance boost is typically marginal, and it takes a lot of foostering around and testing to find out how far you can push the overclock before your PC becomes unstable.

I say this just in case you think OC is something wonderful you're missing out on—it's not. But if it's a learning exercise or new hobby, then of course K yourself O and best of luck with it :)

Yeah, as I said in PS2 (I know my initial post was a bit long but I really have so much to say!), I realise it's barely a few % boost.

It's just super interesting!

I actually started as an electronics engineer. I worked on some Motorolla 68000 systems, made my own computer based on that chip (so, I actually built my own CPU clock!) ... But then I had to pivot into software engineering, as it's so much easier to make a decent living in it without being super good (which I am not).
 
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Plus, there's my wifey's gaming PC which could really use a once-over, since it was built during the peak of GPU shortage and we used whatever we could buy that's not totally insane.

And I plan to build another system next year....

So, there will be some economies of scale and, in the many years that I plan to be doing this, getting a good and happy start is going to be worth it :)
 
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While I'm not able to offer personal mentoring services, there are plenty of online resources and communities that could be helpful to you.
 
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