I use it mostly for gaming, but im trying to get into the whole overclocking thing, seems so fun trying to get the highest possible frequency. because my mobo doesnt support overclocking, I just wanted an overall faster pc w/ new mobo, ram, and cpu. Actually, I decided on the i5 and will be ordering it sometime next week once I decide on all the parts, but will probably try to rma my current ram and use my old parts to make a family pc.