This just in "A moron (seriously... he uses GoDaddy?) cares more about his image (@N) than his money (Oh, someone's trying to hack my paypal, I'll worry about that later...)"
Yep. I was able to squeeze out an extra 50Mhz on the GPU and 200 on the memory after unlocking my BIOS and setting Afterburner to let me use the 150% power target.
Absolutely. And you can also always get one of the universal GPU blocks and some ram sinks, that way you don't have to replace the block when upgrading cards. It won't look as clean but will cool the GPU itself just the same.
I tried that Synapse garbage for a few months.
First, it rebooted my computer, with no prompts, in the middle of A GAME to update itself.
They fixed that so that it would no longer try to install while in a full-screen application.
Then the thing would forget your username/password and...