CCL: Sort of an off topic question

 Sent to CCL by: John McKelvey [jmmckel * gmail.com]
 Folks,
 I've been helping an undergrad  student here start doing DFT work on
 large organometallic complexes, and he has gone over to an overclocked
 Intel 2500K at about 30% faster than stock and also an SSD..  Overall
 speed has a serious effect of the psychological factors about starting
 and staying with a cpu intensive project.  In this case the student is
 a gamer and is up to date on a lot of hardware issues..
 Why all this?
 I realize that CCL has pointed mostly about software applications...
 However the part not discussed is also very important: Hardware.. and
 tech aspects.. So, where is a good place to post general questions
 about hardware performance, perhaps mostly CPUs, coolers and
 overclocking ?
 (Several days ago I found an extensive table comparing PRIME95 times
 on a large(!) variety of combination of mostly unlocked AMD and Intel
 CPUs and coolers.. can't find it again.)
 Suggestions welcomed!!
 Thanks,
 John
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