Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
Buying $1000 processors of any kind of defeats one of the main reason for overclocking, getting more for less
I disagree. The main reason for buying $100-$300 processors and overclocking them is to get more for less. The main reason for buying $1000 processors and overclocking them is to get more than anything currently on the market at any price.

I truly enjoyed buying my QX6700 in Nov'06 for $1500, overclocking it to 4GHz on phase cooling, and enjoying more number crunching per unit time (for my specific app) than I could extract from any other processor available on the market (overclocked or stock) for many many months.

There is a distinction between overclocking for improving price/performance ratio versus overclocking to merely have more performance at nearly any cost.

(this forum is still called Extreme Systems, is it not? Or did fugger change it to Extremely Affordable Systems?)