I have no doubt you are right Phatose, though in my experience the time and money invested on the cooling equipment is rarely worthwhile. Overclocking is really a hobby for those that like to push their hardware beyond specification. And I can understand why they do it. They rarely do it based on a cost perspective, it's all about defying the limitations and squeezing that little bit more out of something. Expensive cases, Thermal compunds, epoxys, heatsinks and water cooling systems are often involved, none of which are cheap. My point is that in the end you may as well buy a newer motherboard and CPU and it'll probably work out cheaper in the long run. OC'ing with nothing more than a thermalright SI97 (K7) and some arctic silver compound, as I have done, is not going to give you any massive gains, and that is affordable overclocking.
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