Oc'ing saved me a few hundred dollars by not having to buy a faster chip. I paid $150 for an amd 3000+ and oc'ed it from 1.8 to 2.45ghz. A 3800+, a 2.4ghz chip costs $369 now, so that's $219, a big deal to me. Although if I had fried my chip, I could have lost $150, so it's a gamble.