Those exotic cooling setups (Phase Change), overpriced ($300-500+) OC' motherboard, and fancy ram needed for overclocking can easily add $1500+ or more to the price of a home built machine, only so they can overclock a $99 pokey little celeron. Why not just spend the $1,000 on the Extreme Edition (unlocked multiplier), decent air cooling, and save a few dollars?
"Old Skool" (early 80's) Overclockers, overclocked to save money by buying the cheapest hardware they could and dropping and swapping in a cheap crystal clock bought at radio shack. Contemporary overclockers, just don't use the same logic. It remains a mystery to me.
$1000 extreme edition is the same CPU you get for $300 but with unlocked multiplier. Meaning with some good air/water cooling you can reach a similar result. $100 cpu can't reach same result due to multiplier. $300 overclocking motherboard will get you further than $100 motherboard but I agree $500 is too much. $250 should be your limit.
And this RAM cooler is just the same as any other fancy cooler for RAM - overpriced piece of junk nobody needs but some buy, because its a hobby.
Did you hear even one story of PC rebooting/bugging/crashing due to RAM overheating? I didn't. Proper case cooling (venting the hot air out, pulling the cold air in) is more than enough to keep the PC running. IMO
It's just the nerdier version of the person who spends 10,000 on their Civic to make it Almost perform like a car that cost 10,000 more than what they paid for it in the first place.
Because my i7 920 is OC'ed from 2.66 GHz to ~3.90 GHz on a 300$ Water cooling loop that includes my GTX 260. Its all super stable and the price difference here in Canada is 900-950$ for the extreme. So id say its worth it especially since it benches better then at extreme stock speeds.
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Those exotic cooling setups (Phase Change), overpriced ($300-500+) OC' motherboard, and fancy ram needed for overclocking can easily add $1500+ or more to the price of a home built machine, only so they can overclock a $99 pokey little celeron. Why not just spend the $1,000 on the Extreme Edition (unlocked multiplier), decent air cooling, and save a few dollars?
"Old Skool" (early 80's) Overclockers, overclocked to save money by buying the cheapest hardware they could and dropping and swapping in a cheap crystal clock bought at radio shack. Contemporary overclockers, just don't use the same logic. It remains a mystery to me.
"Why not just spend the $1,000 on the Extreme Edition (unlocked multiplier), decent air cooling, and save a few dollars?"
*shrugs*
It's a hobby.
$1000 extreme edition is the same CPU you get for $300 but with unlocked multiplier. Meaning with some good air/water cooling you can reach a similar result. $100 cpu can't reach same result due to multiplier.
$300 overclocking motherboard will get you further than $100 motherboard but I agree $500 is too much. $250 should be your limit.
And this RAM cooler is just the same as any other fancy cooler for RAM - overpriced piece of junk nobody needs but some buy, because its a hobby.
Did you hear even one story of PC rebooting/bugging/crashing due to RAM overheating? I didn't. Proper case cooling (venting the hot air out, pulling the cold air in) is more than enough to keep the PC running.
IMO
It's just the nerdier version of the person who spends 10,000 on their Civic to make it Almost perform like a car that cost 10,000 more than what they paid for it in the first place.
Almost.
Because my i7 920 is OC'ed from 2.66 GHz to ~3.90 GHz on a 300$ Water cooling loop that includes my GTX 260. Its all super stable and the price difference here in Canada is 900-950$ for the extreme. So id say its worth it especially since it benches better then at extreme stock speeds.