What is Tweaking?
Tweaking is making performance modifications to software or hardware. In the case of hardware, tweaking can refer to changing the clock speed of the computer processing unit (CPU), a procedure known as “overclocking.” Software tweaks can be done on the level of programmable code by the author to improve a program’s performance, or they can be done by the end-user by changing default options to improve functionality. For many computer geeks the computer system is all about benchmarks. In the 1950s the thing to do might have been souping up the hot rod, but today it’s all about souping up the system. Tweaking voltage, random access memory (RAM) speed, and CPU clock cycles can squeeze out a few more performance points from a setup. Add a high-end graphics card and customized water cooling, and the only thing missing is the fuzzy dice. Tweakers are also often “modders.” A change that is aesthetic rather than geared towards performance is a “mod,” short for modification, rather than a tweak
