It is, I planned to overclock but so far all my games run at constant 60fps so I decided to not bother. But I will eventually.

Good choice going with asus. I have stuck with them for years and its the first time i buy a gigabyte mobo in a long time. So far so good but I had a few weird glitches in the bios and the software support sucks donkey balls. I think ill be back to asus next time 

Don't bother overclocking your CPU or GPU. Most CPUs and GPUs made these days are built to automatically decrease their clock speed if they get hot to prevent them from burning up.

True, Chips throttle down on temperature threshold. They have been doing that for a while. 

That is why overclockers invest in after market coolers. With a decent cooler this will not happen. And you should never overclock to the point that your chip heats up to throttle point anyway. Typically with adequate cooling you will hit stability problem before heat problems.

Some chips are beasts. Some of those old Q6600 Quad core could overclock over 4.ghz ( Stock 2.33 ghz ) 

I had a Xeon processor before that I ran at 4.15 ghz which was rated for 3.15.

Hopefully you have some good monitors to let you know when you are nearing the temperature threshold.

Maybe we should also talk about CPU and GPU temp monitors. How many of us will realize that they are seeing a performance problem due to the game's graphic settings being so high that they are overheating their CPUs or GPU?

I am using "All CPU Meter"  for my CPUs and "GPU Meter" for my GPU, both by Addgadgets.com. Both of these run in my sidebar, which makes watching them while playing games in windowed mode easy. I also occasionally use HWVMonitor from CPUID for those times when I want additional information about my CPUs and GPU performance, such as when playing a game in full screen mode.

The widely accepted reference for Intel CPU core temp is the software called RealTemp , this is what most overclockers will use. For GPU, I use GPU_Z and ASUS GPU tweak.  I flashed the bios in my graphic card in a very aggressive manner .

I removed almost all automatic throttling by power usage features, which results in the card running significantly faster in average. The temps are still verey good though, thanks to having an Asus DIRECTCU II cooler on the thing.

I agree. ASUS has been a very good brand for me also. My mobo, graphics card, and tablet/laptop are all ASUS.

WINDOWS 8? You are an adventurous man, aren't you?

Just kidding. My tablet/laptop (I say /laptop because I have an attached keyboard for my tablet that gives it a touch pad, keyboard, and another battery[not sure what to call it, tabtop? ]) runs Windows 8.1 but without the touch screen I feel it would be rather cumbersome. 

It's actually pretty good, because it makes your games run a few FPS faster! No joking here, this is real talk; it makes your CPU ~5-7% faster effectively because of how it's programmed!

The only real downsides for 8.1 (which isn't the same as vanilla 8) are that the windows key doesn't take you directly to desktop, and some of the 'mouse over the edge of the screen' features are a bit hyper-responsive.

I didnt really read through the thread to compare builds, but im running my own custom desktop

Case is a Cooler Master HAF-XM, with two Corsair high performance 120mm fans.

Motherboard is an ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0

Antec 1200W PSU

AMD FX-8350 with a Corsair H100 water cooler(Over clocked to 4.5 GHz)

32GB 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance

Two-Way SLI GTX Titan Blacks

1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD

1TB Samsung 840 Evo(SSD)

120GB Corsair Force Series SSD(For operating system and drivers)

And a CD/DVD Reader/Writer

Im also running three 23" HP Widescreen monitors for NVIDIA Surround

Has your supercomputer found the last digit of Pi yet? 

A FX chip... I avoided those because of their poor single thread performance.  They should do better with newer highly multithreaded apps and games but right now there is still an advantage to have very good single thread machines. This is why I went with 4670k

My system specs are :

Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center 64-bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1045T Processor 2.70 GHz

Memory: 4GB RAM

Monitor: HP 2511x LED

Drives: Intel SSD 240GB and WDC 1TB

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

Graphics Card name: AMD HD 6570

I was planning on getting a AMD R7 265 ... and maybe more ram too.

We have a new winner for the most powerful PC. TWO Titan Blacks? Those things have like 6Gb of dedicated memory each. And they have 2000 CUDA cores? (I just know it's insane) 1TB Samsung SSD? How much did this all cost?

No joke.

So does this chip have multiple cores? Is it only able to run multithreaded? I know that say an Intel Core i5 has 4 physical cores, but 8 hyperthreaded, but how does this FX chip work?

We're old men now. 

Unless you're a woman, in which case... whatever. Old!

It has 8 cores Vs 4 cores for most intel CPUs. But intel has stronger cores.  My overclocked First generation core Xeon X5460 scored almost as good in single thread as a FX-8350, and that processor is 5 years old.

If you look at passmark single thread benchmarks, you see that FX-8350 does not do so well compared to i5-4670k which is 48% faster. While the FX has more raw power than the intel, most software is not programmed to take full advantage of it which results of poorer performance.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Im still trying, don't worry.

Without tax, it ran me somewhere along the lines of  $4000 ish. With tax...its was considerably higher.