What's your OC doing for you?

I don't really consider myself a die-hard overclocker and although I am pleased to have a cpu that seems to have no objection to it, I am wondering as to what benefit you have found in it. Other than just the fun of tinkering and such, what is your overclock doing for you in practical terms? Is it providing the necessary fps boost in a certain game or does it cut down on your encoding time?
Please share what your benefit is!!!

Both gaming and encoding time.
Not that I care honestly but I'm usually the 1st person in the next map of a game of BF2. When dumping the money for these modern video cards you need a fast CPU to feed the video card info, sadly this requires a fast CPU. With the $300-400 or more spent on the video card it doesn't leave much left over for the CPU. The OC turns the $150 CPU into a $800 dollar one.
As for encoding, every frame per sec is nice. I use to have dual Athlon MP 2800+ CPU's on an Asus A7M266-D for it, but there weren't that many SMP apps for encoding. (Man those AMD 760 chipsets were starving the CPU for bandwidth for encoding, slow single channel DDR feeding 2 CPU's... ) Of course as soon as I ditched it SMP has picked up steam with dual core.
I still use Intel for encoding. P4 Prescott 2.8E at 3.3 on good ole Asus P4C800-E delx, 1GB RAM at 236Mhz, and 6 drive SCSI RAID 0.
and AMD for gaming. Which is the MSI rig in my sig.
Finally and maybe the most important. I get alot of the enjoyment from the OC from just doing it and hanging out with clowns like you guys . Been overclocking since the first Pentium's and K5's, old habits die hard and I just like pushing it.

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<[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> For some reason I thought you were a male person. My
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