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CGI-Quality said:

Eh, it's unecessary right now. NO game will chug this thing, and my dev/rendering apps have gotten quite the boost (the IVB-E making less of an impact than the two Titans). Besides, this will be a year or so build before upgrading to the next gen parts (Haswell-E/Maxwell), so I'll be covered with stock till then.


the only reason I would oc is if you play games like arma or ms flight sim x ...
but not because they need the power, but because they are horribly optimized or in case of fsx not optimized at all ...

people with having their i7 oc to 5ghz still have problems to run fsx properly with all the addons.
and arma is doing what arma always does ... having bad performance, especially in mp.

is maxwell the next one after haswell ? if yes i think intel said they can't keep up with the yearly release cycle of new cpu's so the next one is coming in 2 years earliest I hope.