Seems interesting. I'll give it a go. I have an i5 3550k overclocked to 4.2ghz. Will the overclock benefit?
Should benefit quite a bit. I am not sure there are even diminished returns on more clock speed.
Here are some stats from a few of my CPUs:
Amazon cc2.8 Large[13:45:43] Stats: 10.095 hash/min
[13:45:46] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: Accepted
x5650 @3.4ghz[07:22:29] Found solution - 11760 / 1968 / 1636249367
[07:22:33] Found share ...f51fe0ced4a01e4f: submitting
[07:22:33] Stats: 4.512 hash/min
[07:22:36] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: Accepted
x2 L5639 Xeons @ 2.4ghz[07:20:35] Found solution - 10299 / 1968 / 1324839730
[07:20:51] Stats: 3.079 hash/min
3770k @4.6ghz[07:23:35] Found share ...1ceb46262d62062a: submitting
[07:23:35] Stats: 4.158 hash/min
[07:23:39] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: Accepted
Note that the 6/12 core X5650 @ 3.4ghz is matching the 4/8 core 3770k @ 4.6ghz.