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With a NV 280, If you don t have a 30 inchs monitor, the best way to increase the speed of your gaming experience IS to increase the speed of your processor.

Can we stop painting the world with 30" inches monitors? the people usually don t have this kind, the average resolution today is 1600x1200 and moving to 1920x1080 ... We are far from the 2560x1200! There is a 33% difference on the pixels, or about 1 millions pixels difference.
The world uses at max 2 millions pixels screen, and the misconception , well, you was showing it big time. reality: PEOPLE DON T HAVE 3 MILLIONS PIXELs SCRREN. THE PROCESSOR DOES HELP THE SCALING, TRY IT BEFORE WRITING MISCONCEPTED CORRECTION FOR A MISCONCEPTION lOL ... Nova is right!
Thanks Nova for verifying what I told you! 975 can fit into very small form factor with its awesome processing power if you undervolt it!

I quote the author - "Cranking up the speed is obviously what you'd do for intensive uses, like high-end gaming."

Not true,

This is a misconception that drives me crazy. Take any modern game at a high resolution, like a real gamer would play it, and you will find 100% of the time that the graphics card is the bottleneck. Gamers overspend on the CPU and underspend on the graphics component because of this perception that overclocking a high end CPU is going to show them some kind of real world yield in their game frame rates, but unless its an older CPU limited title like Unreal Tournament 2004 for example, its already running many times past your monitors refresh so it no longer matters, it has no real world measurable value in gaming performance.

This idea of an "Extreme" model CPU being sold and marketed to gamers is a sham. Sure, it improves your 3D mark scores because there is a CPU specific test, but it in no way improves your frame rate in intense modern GPU limited titles like Crysis and Call of Duty World at War.

Now, I love an unlocked processor, I think they are great, but the value in overclocking is not in 3D gaming. If you want a better 3D gaming experience, buy, save some money, but a good dual core, maybe a tripple, or a less expensive quad, and put the savings into a smoking graphics card.

Using UD5 as well and I must say it's top notch in all departments. Highly recommended

i have the UD5, the board below the extreme and frankly its probably the best board i have ever used. i cant recommend it enough, the P6T is also a class board, but the gigabyte for me is a nose hair in front