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A lot of people believe that overclocking their PC will allow them to get much better framerate in games. While not completely false, the change you get from overclocking your PC is minimal or none at all. Usually games run better with overclocked Graphics cards, not overclocked CPUs. In other...

I recommend an 80+ Gold Power Supply as compared to just 80+ with that rig. Here is a great Power Supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017&cm_re=EVGA_750_G2-_-17-438-017-_-Product

It shouldn't be overheating. You have a great CPU cooler. You may have put on the thermal paste incorrectly or you put the CPU cooler on incorrectly. Check those first.

There could be many reasons this problem is occurring. Can you open up Task Manager and look which process or program is eating up all of the CPU usage? (While in game) Try those games on lowest possible settings and see how well it runs. You may have a virus. Do a full scan on Windows Defender...

You can't overclock a i7-2600 as those are locked processors. An unlocked processor will always have a K after it (Or an x for the Extreme processors which can be overclocked). You would need to open it up and edit the processor yourself if you wanted to unlock it. I don't recommend you to do...

A $400 gaming PC won't run all modern games well. You will need atleast $700 to run most modern games. Here is a nice $500 gaming PC (without OS, monitor, keyboard, mouse, or optical drive) that will be able to run most games pretty well: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/v3WwQ7