last week , my overclocked gtx 580 die . it be not overclock that much , but obviously something happen . in any case , when I be troubleshoot why my computer be pull a bsod -lrb- blue screen of death -rrb- before Windows could even load every time I would restart my computer , I downclock my processor to it be normal speed as well in a attempt to find out what have happen . at that point , I do not know what have go wrong . previously , my spec be : i7 950 @ 4.1 ghz - temp : 70 c -lrb- full load , overclocked -rrb- gtx 580 - temp : 80 c -lrb- full load , overclocked -rrb- Skyrim Average FPS : 45 when I find out that it be just the graphic card give I trouble , I quickly order the gtx 680 . I vow that I would not overclock the GPU . I would decide later if I would overclock my CPU again . New spec : i7 950 @ 3.1 ghz - temp : 58 c -lrb- full load -rrb- gtx 680 - temp : 72 c -lrb- full load -rrb- Skyrim Average FPS : 60 despite replace my broken graphic card with a more powerful one , I be still worry that I would hit a CPU ceiling\/bottleneck , especially since the CPU clock speed be now a entire ghz slower ! to my shock , this be not the case . the game I play be actually run faster and smoother -lrb- try out adaptive vsync - it rock -rrb- . the card be obviously a beast . for the game to run faster and smoother with that much difference in processor speed be impressive . I now get perfect FPS 99 % of the time . I be still kind of weird out by my result . but hey - I be not complain !