There certainly exists the possibility of a professional overclocker. I
never excluded this. I just haven't heard of it. I still maintain in your
post you were using the term amateur as a derogatory term meaning "don't
know what you are talking about" Here are some quotes to jog your memory.
"Spoken like an amature."
"The amature is the one who can't keep a system stable
overclocked, or doesn't know how to determine what the
ceiling of stability is."
Hmm. Originally you suggested the dictionary, so at this
point I recommend you seek one. Amateur is not necessarily,
only the exact opposite of professional, it also has a
common meaning of lacking the skill of one. That's not even
a loose interpretation as so common with most words in the
english language but even in the strict sense the context
was appropriate but you jumped the gun thinking you knew
better.
Again you misinterpret things to support your view. Nowhere did I say
anything about a professional being conservative.
You certainly did imply it with the idea that they'd not
overclock. You're now backpeddling.
Of course there are
professionally built hotrods just as there may be professionally built
overclocked computers. I observed that I have not seen a professionally
built overclocked computer that wasn't some kind of fraud or scam but that
doesn't preclude the possibility.
First let's be clear. There was no point in ever using the
term "professional" and you are creating your own house of
cards from that point forward. Any further shades of grey
about what professionals do is simply enduring your
illusions.
There are very few professional
"hotrodders" just as there are very few if any professional "overclockers".
You have taken a survey or are you just making things up as
you go along?
Again none of this has anything to do with one's knowledge about
overclocking, hotrodding or anything else.
Then why did you write the word professional in the first
place?
It seems you are the only one suggesting otherwise.
Some amateurs are much more
knowledgeable in their chosen hobby than most of the professionals in that
field. Some professionals regularly consult amateur experts.
I do hope you are eventually going to skip over this bit
about stating the obvious and irrelevant,
soon?
Or anything else. what is your point?
That what you had written was just general information of no
particular use and not something worth mentioning.
We are arguing pointlessly about semantics. We both agree it is possible to
overclock some systems successfully. We seem to disagree on whether it is a
good thing for the average user or not.
Actually we're arguing about your notion that something
someone else wrote didn't agree with a pre-conceived notion
you had that included more variables than those mentioned.
Someone writes the word "amateur" and you go off half-cocked
about professional system builders or sellers. Adding in
further information in order to make a counterpoint against
a prior point that did not cover all of this extraneous
information is not applicable.
I took exception to you equating
amateur with no expertise. I'll leave the last word to you.
I'd describe it as a more basic "failure to understand there
are multiple definitions of amateur".
