Well, AMD had the forethought to make their cores a overclockers dream. The Black Editions allow that and can clock quite a bit with just air cooling. My 7850 from reading overclocking test, etc. can reach 3.0 stable and cooled just by air. The Intel cores can overclock also. Most seem to like the Intel. Everyone has their favorites I guess. Personally, I do not see myself fooling with overclocking. My luck it will all go up in smoke
