Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
But in many cases you defeat the reason for overclocking in the first place. If you spend all that money to get a higher overclock, you could have just bought a more expensive processor and overclocked it a little LOL! j/k

Unless you're working at the Intel Chip Set foundry, I want some proof=P

I chat with at least 5 people using 4 different X38's and all of them are at 4.1GHz or better for 24/7 overclocks. I see many here doing the same. Two of these guys bought them when they were NEW, sfirst shipments and fresh from the factory. One has a suicide shot of 4.6GHz LOL! The last are brand new on Gigabyte and One DFI. Chip set heat and RAM seem to be the biggest hold back and that has nothing to with the rest of the Board. I wished they'd build a Socket mountable chip set mount and cooler

I saw a Newbi overclocker running a 3GHz Wolfie at 3.6GHz and he was happy as a Monkey with a Peanut machine to quote George Clinton. His rig costs him less than half of what he paid for an Athlon X2-4600+ just 2.5 short years ago. He didn't overclock because he didn't know how, he didn't because his WOULDn't overclock more than 66MHz LOL!

Again, there are budget boards not meant to be overclocked and not beefed up like OC-able ones are. AFAIK, there aren't any Dud X38's sold on boards meant for overclockers. I've NOT seen any.
Quote Originally Posted by Donnie27 View Post
But come on guys isn't this a case of Nit-Picking gone wild? We have folks talking about a 30 to 37% overclock on a Processor that's 3GHz at stock and being what? Hell, at stock it is faster than any Dual Core Processor that shipped last year, out overclocks last years' best on even the cheap boards for what. 200 to 210 dollars? Blackops has for enthusiasts written all over it. The problem is Foxconn (and the rest selling such products) think Enthusiast means Suckers with more money than Brains.

So what are we talking about here 4.4GHz instead of 4.2GHz? At over 4GHz how could we tell if the Processor is 3 or 4 hundred MHz Faster? Sure our wallet can tell the difference LOL! Blackops will cost what again for that extra 200 or 300MHz?
I love it when peps complain on how other people spend there money that they do not have