Overclocking Guide

[Frag Maniac]

Thanks Koda, those must be what NCIX was talking about. Unfortunately they are no easier for me to follow and I'm not even sure now after reading his saying that the FPS gains are only about 10% average that I should bother with it at all. I've been toying with the idea of using a stock i7 870 instead of OCing a i7 920, which has a much higher Turbo Boost of 3.2GHz with 4 cores active, but I was counting on getting an X58 board because of the better upgrade path. After having seen an ASUS model P55 for well under $300 with SATA III though, I'm tempted. I'm not sure the 16 lane Pci-Ex restriction would be adequate for two top shelf single GPU DX11 Nvidia cards though, which is the upgrade scenario I'm considering. Those cards may be the first single GPU ones to exceed 8x usage.

I miss the Core 2s that were clocked as high as 3.6GHz stock. Stock speeds on quads are a joke considering what OC speeds they're capable of. I really don't get Intel's thinking there. Seems to me they are limiting sales somewhat by forcing people to OC to get non bottle neck speeds with high end GPUs. Many don't care to get involved in OCing, in fact I would say probably most don't, especially considering how most all the guides for it breeze through it too fast without actually showing you the step by step process and/or inundate you with charts and numbers. I'd be willing to buy a DVD video of a thorough OC guide, but I know of no such thing. A 10 minute limit YouTube video does not cut it for this kind of guide, and the videos are the closest thing I've seen the to the step by step instruction I'm looking for.