Yep
Cons : exept for specific needs (ex : professional, 3 screens with Photoshop, ....) no need to overclock the cpu, actuals i5 or i7 are enough faster. There is a real difference on the computer between a HDD or SSD or some different graphic cards but not really between overclocking CPU's. Just for bench...
thats true most of the time....
but if you have a pretty fast GPU like a 580 GTX or the new highend ATI GPUs or a SLI/ CF setup the bottleneck of your sys will always be your CPU
I am running 2x ATI 6970 in CF and I have a 4Ghz Core i5 750 OCed
all you have to have is a good balance between CPU and GPU
Totally agree...i have the GTX 580 SC,,,and an overclocked cpu is better for games like crysis..bf3,Batman,Mafia with direct x 11 titles...the overclocked cpu lets this baby scream....mine overclocks easily though it has an unlocked multiplier,,,but i agree bottlenecks are usually always caused by the cpu holding back the vid card.