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I've been tinkering with computers for approximately 18 years now. I just wondered if anyone else has found them in a similar situation to me in recent times.

When I was younger all I ever seemed to do was overclocking and benching, again and again and again. I probably used the hardware more to do that than anything else, endlessly changing the settings to get ever last few points.

Somewhere in the Core "i" era I feel I completely lost interest in overclocking. I am far more interested in the stability/performance/efficiency relationship than I am in outright performance. On all my systems now the only overclock I have is actually an underclock on my i5 3570k to allow it to run passively.

So to the question.

Who runs there systems at Stock and who overclocks and why?
 
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I suppose now with so many bottlenecks being removed - RAM, SSDs and CPUs(in some applications) it all kind of feels a bit pointless.

Now with this new boost stuff for GPUs and CPUs it seems the hardware does the large majority of the work for you. Not sure if that's a bad or good thing.
 
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I suppose part of my problem is that when I buy a new GPU/CPU they are normally(not always) overpowered for what I am currently doing so I don't really need to OC then. When the OC is really needed I normally just upgrade instead as it makes more sense with what is available now. For example I imagine when my GTX1070 can't handle 1080p the 12XX series will be out and the 1270 will be a far more appealing option!
 
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