This is why I don’t overclock my PC – but you might want to

When I was growing up, the PC gaming industry was regularly making such huge leaps forward that speed was everything. Whole new genres were born out of improvements in processor power, RAM, and storage — all the way from flight simulators to first-person shooters. Games like Doom might seem quaint to people raised on Call of Duty and Fortnite, but when it launched, it was something that had been technically impossible just a few years earlier.