So then you take the Core i5-750 and plonk it on a Gigabyte GA-P55-US3L motherboard alongside 8GB of DDR3 Crucial ‘Ballistix’ 1333MHz memory, cooling it down with an Arctic Cooling heatpipe heatsink and fan and what do you get? This:

I can now encode HD video almost in realtime, and editing my camera footage is also possible without wanting to bash my fist through the monitor. It automatically clocks itself up from 2.66GHz to 3.2Ghz with ease, and I’ve taken it as high as 3.5GHz and still stable. It didn’t much like 4GHz so I won’t touch that again.

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