Yep, and by the time you buy your $200 case, $200 water cooling system, $300 motherboard etc, you could have simply purchased better hardware and ran it at stock settings. If high end rendering is really a concern, you can go dual CPU as well.
Let's be honest. There is no reason to overclock for a 3D workstation. People overlock for gaming and benchmarks. Can anyone actually prove the practical performance benefits for the kind of things we do, no. People who tout overclocking as a sensible and cost conscious choice are biased hobbyists, plain and simple. I…
These sort of threads generally pop up a couple times per year, but then drivers are released to fix the issue no? On the other hand with AMD/ATI cards, you can count on every new release to break something. =P Besides, the only cards "officially" supported by Maya are quadros and firegls. I always go nvidia for…