For the same reason George Mallory gave when asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest!OC is a ready and free (aside from the cooler) source of measurable performance boost. I don't imagine I'll ever consider stock clock after having run at 4.7 & 4.8 GHz.

I agree to that, don't get me wrong, an overclocked i5 to 4.8 is awesome, as I have one at this speed myself running only at 38 degrees with FSX, but it's not a must, that is what I was pointing out.

Ok I'll agree it isn't absolutely necessary, but it's so easy nowadays you might as well go for it.

Once you clock, you can't stock :(

Ok I'll agree it isn't absolutely necessary, but it's so easy nowadays you might as well go for it.

And to that, I agree :( just edit 1 small thing in the EFI or whatever it's called with ASUS, and you got it clocked...

I suggested it, so of course I think it's good :biggrin:The CPU, cooler, motherboard, case, PSU will allow for future potential upgrades (SLI, PCIe 3.0, Ivy Bridge, etc...) and overclock too

good, for a high end PC?(:

All it takes is an overclocked sandy bridge & a 5xx series card to be a high-end machine

All it takes is an overclocked sandy bridge & a 5xx series card to be a high-end machine

And to be honest, high end PC's these days are relatively cheap IMO, I payed €1200 for a 2500k, P8P67 LE REV3, 8GB Corsair 1600Mhz DDR3, GB GTX560 256bit 1GB DDR5, Corsair H80 cooler and a Corsair case, not bad huh?

I remember once paying around $2500 once to build a 1.5ghz pentium2 system. It was really awesome at the time, aside from my mistake of putting the then brand new windowsME on it.Both mine and microsoft's biggest blunders coincide...

I remember once paying around $2500 once to build a 1.5ghz pentium2 system. It was really awesome at the time, aside from my mistake of putting the then brand new windowsME on it.Both mine and microsoft's biggest blunders coincide...

Haha, you mean one of MS's big blunders? I know of atleast another one! :(

Yeah they've had quite a few, but that entire os was abandoned almost the day it released. I wonder how much they spent on sw engineers to build something that bombed so badly

Yeah they've had quite a few, but that entire os was abandoned almost the day it released. I wonder how much they spent on sw engineers to build something that bombed so badly

Ouch, didn't know that, and they did it twice pretty much, on Vista...

oh Oh, the man asked me if i want SSd's, should i?

CPU - the 2500K is the same thing as the 2600K minus the hyperthreading, which is of almost no use in games. It'll overclock better due to the massive reduction in heat from not having hyperthreading.RAM - This used to matter for overclocking when you had to OC with the front side bus, which pushes the RAM's speed up too, but it does not matter with the Sandy Bridge CPUs because they OC via the chip's multiplier. The CPU goes up but the RAM can remain at 1333 or whatever it's stock speed is.The idea that you're going to get stuttering with CL9 RAM is bogus too - I'm running some right now without any issues. That guy has something else going on with his system. CL naturally goes up with RAM speed too, not down - I remember CL3 and 2 RAM back in the old days. As long as you run the correct timings listed on the RAM (auto mode in the BIOS will do this for you on any modern RAM via Serial Presence Detect (SPD)), you'll be fine - trust me.Look at these benchmarks here:http://www.xtremesys...-tRC-tRFC-tREF)The biggest difference is on the time needed to do a calculation of the value Pi out to 32 *million* digits - CL7 results in about 8 less seconds than CL9 on a calculation that took almost 3 hours to do. FSX is doing absolutely nothing anywhere close to that intense.GPU - the GTX580 is better if you're playing games other than FSX or if you're using resolutions above 1920.

Hey, your post is really appreciated thanks! just wanted to ask do i need SSD'S to run it smoothly or there's no need? thanks very much!(:

You should have a good hard drive but SSD is overkill I think. 10k rpm velociraptor is a good one, and much cheaper than solid state

Hey, thanks.so no SSD'S need? and digital isn't good, i have actually thought about get a digital one. thanks.