Renob, it kind of depends on what you are doing with your computer, your time and your money.
Of course these are all very individual decisions that are very personal to each of us.
To me it's like this:
When my wife and I had our first child we didn't want to find out if it was a boy or girl until she was born. We wanted to be surprised. We knew we would be just as happy either way.
We both had the same feeling for our second child.
When the third one came we were thinking more about whether we would need to get boy clothes or girl clothes so we got an ultrasound and found out. This way we could get the right clothes, picking a name was easier because half of them no longer applied, when people would ask we could say, we are having a boy and his name will be ..., and all that kind of stuff.
We liked this. We also found out for our 4th, 5th and 6th children.
We also liked - not knowing - when we were younger.
So, you see - it's an individual thing, most people want to look under the hood and see just what kind of horsepower the sleek new car they are thinking of buying has.
For some of us there are enough surprises every day, we just want to buy a cpu that is guaranteed to go up to a certain speed and then we can count on running software that needs that kind of speed.
Others like you would rather save a few bucks and take the risk yourself. That is your decision and I respect you for it. That is how I felt for my first 15 or 20 CPU's myself.
Now I have other concerns and interests and am mainly happy when someone sells me something and it performs as advertised.
Compuwiz1 does a great service to the people in the ForSale forum here at AnandTech, his customer service is excellent and he just seems like an all around great guy. I would not hesitate to buy another cpu from him and I encourage anyone here who wants a great guaranteed overclock to talk to him.