What are the real benefits of Overclocking

I have had my Q6600 @ 3.0 GHz and set to stock and not really noticed anything. I have overclocked my graphics cards and not really noticed much. I've been playin a lot of COD4 lately and with my SLI setup, the frames just sit at 90 for the most part. They sit at 90 regardless of OC or not. My web browsing and other random small apps use has not seen any noticeable difference either.

So i guess the question is where am I going to see any benefits of overclocking? I mostly just play video games, COD4, Bioshock among other FPS and RTS titles. I like to play the most up to date games. It just seems like my computer plays games to the max with stock settings, which is excellent. I am just wondering if down the road, I would see a benefit of a nice overclock on some more advanced games?

I only removed my OC on my CPU due to some heating issues, but those are fixed now. Right now I am seeing now difference in my computer experience, so just wondering if I should even do any overclocking.

Well its only worth while when you get something out.
Modern games arn't normally cpu bound but gpu bound. You'll get more benefits if you use photoshop, encode alot and such things.

If your Q6600 owns the games stock your not going to notice an OC...

try running crysis stock/OC

In some games you will notice a difference, in video encoding/transcoding is a large gain.

Overclocking can also extend the usefull life of a computer, by helping outdated parts run faster, in order to keep up with modern games/apps.

Damnit Aznguy, that's not lag....that's low fps. Lag is seeing friendlies and enemies warping and rubber banding around the map....etc.

Also when you get slight pauses while playing some people call it stuttering, others call it hitching.

Get the terminology right please.

I lag a lot due to my wireless connection(I share A Cable Internet connection with my neighbor and split the bill). I get big lag spikes in all my games, In FFOW(<---avatar) I'll be flying straight one moment, and the next i'm in a nosedive or flying in a completely different direction. That is lag.

Lol,I once considered a split connection with my neighbor,but we live too far away,so we would have to run wireless,and he would get bad lag in his World of Warcraft

I once overclocked my Pentium D 925 to like 3.4/3.6 Ghz and didn't notice alot of useful difference...

if you don't notice a difference when you overclock - your bottleneck is something else.

My house is 15-20 feet from theirs, and conveniently our computer rooms are literally next to each other, I get an "Excellent" signal 95% of the time and Very Good the rest, My problem is obviously latency.

Speed wise I get the full download speed and same up,and I ping ok to most servers. And I don't lag all the time I just get lag spikes intermittently. and for next to nothing price wise I can and do put up with it and still manage a very positive Kill/Death Ratio.

A friend has suggested using the "Windsurfer" antenna on my Wireless NIC(or the router) as it supposedly gives a 9db boost and since I know where the router is I am connecting to, it works out well with the Directional nature of the windsurfer.

For those interested
http://www.freeantennas.com/projec [...] index.html

From the site
Note: If printed at the download size you will see about 9 dBi of gain. If you double the size of the image before you print it you will see about 12 dBi of gain. If you place two reflectors on an AP with two antennas you will see an additional increase in performance.

Flight Simulatyor X is the exception, as it's the most CPU bound "game" that you can run. Frame rates scale nearly 1:1 with processor clock speed. Since this simulation is so CPU intensive, a high overclock is vital for the best frame rates. High GPU horsepower, including SLI, has a nearly negligible effect on Flight Simulator X frame rates.