Hope your running a Thermaltake or a Zalman. If your using stock your chip will start flaking out around 6 months or so. Used to overclock everything but with todays technology its really all in the videocard...not so much in the CPU. Yes a faster CPU does help but I found over the years that if you overclock the CPU vs videocard. The CPU get flaky first. I find that with todays chip they did not increase dramatically in speed in comparison to older chips. ie when I o'clock a P700 to 1066 or something like that with a GForce2 GTX and I would get 7000+ on 3dmark. The newer chips only go up to 8,000 and 9,000 and those are chips in the 1.6 and 1.8 with Gforce4 cards. Youd think it would jump exponentially but it doesnt. It do not know with the 2.2 or higher if the score are much higher...ops looked it up and they were in the 17,000-20,000...wow the Athlon 64 3200+(2572) was in the 30k..phenominal.
