For awhile I had a job as a computer benchmarker who did overclocking as well. It was a small job but I got some free computer parts out of it. At one point, I had 5 different computers in what I considered my basement home office. I have overclocked a Core 2 Duo, a very cheap chip not the fancier Core 2 Duos that used to exist, from 1.8GHz to 3.4GHz on Air cooling. I believe I hit around 4GHz on a 2.8GHz Phenom II as well.
I once had a friend who apparently, and I think it's true too, worked for the AMD graphics department as an engineer. My highest honor was when he, who had a good education, told me he thought I was pretty smart and knew my stuff.
The questions I might not be able to answer are the garden variety "I need help with Windows" sort. If you ask me what's wrong with your Windows, I will just be honest and say you should switch to Linux.
I'm a fiend for pixels. Because I cannot sit still for too long they have to be "portable pixels". I have an 8 year old, 17" MacBook Pro because that's the most non-retina pixels they ever put on a laptop.
Now, I also just want my OS to operate reliably (that rules out windoze). I don't want to spend time messing with kernels and such. I appreciate that I have a Bash shell on my Mac, and I don't mind the extra money for a Mac. But I'd consider going non-Mac and some flavor of Linux to get more pixels on my laptop - if the Linux version was low maintenance.
What PC and flavor of Linux might you recommend?