The "Elsa" name is the part I can't comment on. :tongue: Never used one.
The short answer is: No, not everyone overclocks. Matter of fact, most gamers don't, but many enthusiasts do. Which is why here it seems more common.
There are some who overclock everything, all the time. It's basically addictive, but stems from getting more for your money. Take CPU's. For me it started when I bought a Celeron 300a. It costed $130 tops, yet it overclocked easily to 464MHz and outbenched the Pentium II 450, which was the top cpu and cost $800-$1000 at the time. Needless to say, I was hooked, and my next 4-5 systems were all overclocked celerons or PIII's. I had a home LAN for gaming with friends, and almost every system had an overclocked cpu, and later on video cards too. I used to be that way, but now I typically overclock 1) for fun to see what a cpu or video card can do, 2) to whip out high benchies and compare with others :redface: , and 3) When I need to. Basically I don't OC much on my gaming rig now unless I need a little more performance to remain playable at the settings I want to play at. Reason 3 is the best time to OC, but I still have one system that was purely built just to OC (NF7-S, Mobile XP2500+ @ 2.6GHz, and typically a GF4Ti4200 clocked 340/620 (yet i throw lots of cards in there for benchies).
Anyway, the 9800 pro should excel at what you intend to use it for. No need to OC. IF/When you need more performance, then it's time to OC before/instead of shopping for an new system & card.
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