Conclusively thoughts :

This setup has all the bragging rights available, but is it actually worth its extreme price? Does buying an 800 euro cooling for your CPU improve your gaming experience? Do we need a 3Ghz FX?



Well, if you’re a benchmarking-geek, some of the tests will increase heavily through overclocking (duh)… Main word in this sentence is SOME.

If you’re a gamer, it paints another picture though;

You’re not buying a 3000+ euro setup to game in 640*480, and that is exactly where the substantial increases can be seen, varying from 15-20%. When you up the resolution and the eye candy, the advantages of extreme CPU-overclocking in a GPU-dominated environment quickly decrease to naught- zero-nil…

My overall thought? The high-end GPU-market is NOT ready for a 3Ghz Athlon FX. Maybe we should just start overclocking our GPU with another Vapochill LS and make the efforts worthwhile, but that's for next time :-)

Over and out.

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