Comment by Pannoniae

I suspect this happens due to optimising for reasoning... if you insert a few words, it will suddenly start to make more sense.

"If the crashes stop, (that means) the factory overclock is marginal; (so) run a small negative offset. (to confirm this hypothesis)"

The core thought is basically avoid crashes -> caused by marginal overclock -> apply small -offset to test. Which is exactly the order the sentence is in :P