Well , as Hassani Sabbah might say if he were alive today , Nothing matters and everything counts . <| sep |> Oops , I meant the Northeast I guess . New England . Edit Don ' t live there , grew up there . <| sep |> Every spot needs at least a place for a few volcas . <| sep |> PCPP doesn ' t do a good job of checking RAM compatibility . Unless your current DDR 3 runs at 1 . 35 volts then it isn ' t recommended you use it . An i 56600 K without an overclock isn ' t much of an upgrade . You get about a 10 % performance bump from instructions per clock improvement and another 10 % or so from clock rate improvements . 20 % for a minimum investment of over $ 300 isn ' t a great idea . Better to wait , spend the $ 400 and get around 3545 % total improvements thanks to overclocking and faster RAM .