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Originally Posted by Boobiemaster
b) Like I said, for an average user, its simply up to you to determine whether or not you want to pay an extra 200 dollars just to be able to cut your loading times in half for a game. Personally, I really don't mind waiting an extra 10 seconds to load something if it saves me 200 dollars lol. Thats just up to you to determine.
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This is quite subjective - it's not just running a game - overall usage of the computer is much quicker. Opening up Photoshop - for me - is the biggest thing. But for those who don't use photoshop/lightroom/video editing software, you'll definitely appreciate booting up windows in a much shorter time - or even just opening up MS Word/Excel, etc.
And you can find 80GB SSD's for $100, you don't HAVE to shell out $200. Even those will be much, much quicker than a regular HDD.
ANYWAYS, to the OP:
Overclocking - yes, if done incorrectly, can result in BSOD, or a locked computer - but with modern MB's and chips, it doesn't take much to overclock. I personally have an i5, and with a couple quick tweaks, i bumped it from a 2.8GHz, to a 4.0GHz. I had an issue where it froze once and gave me a blue screen, but then all it did was reboot with the default settings - never lost any data or anything.