To me the most important component when OCing is backup image software. Back to normal in 7 minutes whenever a software issue arises that I think will take longer than a few minutes to fix. Not to mention, I am using an old XP license, forget calling microsoft with reactivation each time I have to reinstall. I am not even using raid (1 intel SSD was expensive enough), and I would not dream of running without imaging software, already used it twice since I7 build, once was corrupted OS from bad stick ram...not dealing with driver error messages every time reboot.