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At $871, the $130 extra for overclocking would keep me at about $1000, and still $100 under my original budget. Let's say I overclocked to 4.2 max, would it be a noticeable performance increase for an MMO?

Thanks for the info. And ya, I don't play usually play anything more demanding than mmo games. Most people say that in city hubs, when there's way too many people gathered together, the cpu can make a difference. And with a slightly cheaper power supply, guess it comes closer to a $900 build...

Haha, very good point about the overclocking not being free. With your second build that you posted, would upgrading to a 780 give more performance for gaming versus the overclocked cpu?

We have an old computer in our house, and my gaming laptop is a few years old and not what it used to be. Looking to build a new gaming pc to play Wildstar. Here's what I've come up with for build so far: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz...