The Nvidia GeForce 8800GT looks incredible

[Concillian]

Oh, and as a note, I don't bother overclocking anymore. Too much time spent getting it "just right" for too little gain.

Yeah, I used to overclock a lot. I don't now.

Used to be that overclocking got really significant gains. Now very few games are CPU dependent really at all. The video card is the only thing worth overclocking and many brands offer a mid-level overclock from the factory will full warranties.

Some CPUs are still very safe to OC, the low end C2Ds you essentially buy because you will overclock. These are also relatively safe overclocks, but for the most part un-necessary with games generally able to reasonably push to 60+ FPS without CPU overclocks.

Gain is one thing. Gain you can actually notice is quite another. I always roll my eyes when I see some noob on a forum all excited about how his CPU overclock made his game benchmarks go from 100 FPS to 120 FPS in whatever game he's talking about. How many people will even notice that difference? How many with a modern system even play at a res where their CPU is even limiting performance at all? Games, for the most part, don't demand much more from the CPU at high res than at low res. So the games must be programmed around the lowest common denominator CPU. Most any middle-low CPU provides adequate gaming performance to match up with a high end card that it doesn't make sense to spend more than about $150 on a CPU now.