a 7870 crossfire fits in my budget. That gives better frames then a 680. Its not that the 680 isnt good, just the extra frames you get out of it is not worth 100 dollars more then the evga ftw edition, which really closes the gap between the two to a rather small amount.

I did put cooling in my builds... Noctua d14, and I showed him a CM 212 evo sometime, rambo put cooling in his build to. And you can push SB to 3.8mhz on the stock cooler no problem. Why does he need to OC his computer to the limit?
Mine is at 4.5ghz, with a noctua d14, no where close to my CPUs limit.