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Jmac · 01-19-2012, 10:57 AM

If you're overclocking, I can think of much better ways to spend that $30. If you have enough money that it doesn't make a different in terms of upgrades in other areas, well, you probably upgrade your CPU more than every 3 years, anyways.

If you're getting the Extreme, then yeah, $35 is peanuts compared to the processor cost and if you're going to be pushing really, really hard, it makes some sense, but it's still more piece of mind, IMO, than actual benefit.

I've overclocked every processor I've ever owned and many others for friends/relatives and the last one I torched was a Pentium II back in the '90s ...

01-19-2012, 10:57 AM	#4
Jmac Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Duncan, BC Posts: 10,128 Thanked 5,568 Times in 2,107 Posts Failed 231 Times in 90 Posts	If you're overclocking, I can think of much better ways to spend that $30. If you have enough money that it doesn't make a different in terms of upgrades in other areas, well, you probably upgrade your CPU more than every 3 years, anyways. If you're getting the Extreme, then yeah, $35 is peanuts compared to the processor cost and if you're going to be pushing really, really hard, it makes some sense, but it's still more piece of mind, IMO, than actual benefit. I've overclocked every processor I've ever owned and many others for friends/relatives and the last one I torched was a Pentium II back in the '90s ...