I am going to purchase an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board and i was wondering with the stock (retail) cooling about how much OC'ing can you do and keep the temp sub ~60C. I will be running Corsair XMS PC3200 512MB sticks of mem. With your personal experiences is it possible to push the cpu to about 3.4ghz no prob?
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Question for 3.0C CPU owners
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BlueIce41188
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the 3ghz cpu are known for running hot with stock cooling so i wouldn't recommend you oc without a new heatsink and fan
but with the proper cooling i don't think it will be difficult at all to get it up to 3.4ghz and maybe more
but with the proper cooling i don't think it will be difficult at all to get it up to 3.4ghz and maybe more
Someone I know online got theirs to 3.6ghz, and 3.55ghz totally stable on air.
What's funny is how you mention ^^^ they run hot. Personally, I think Intel just creates one chip, weeds out the worst, medium, and best. Then they change the multiplier and throw it in a box. This would explain why the 3.0C would run "hot" and how certain 2.4ghz chips could get to 3.0C overclock speeds (3.6).
What's funny is how you mention ^^^ they run hot. Personally, I think Intel just creates one chip, weeds out the worst, medium, and best. Then they change the multiplier and throw it in a box. This would explain why the 3.0C would run "hot" and how certain 2.4ghz chips could get to 3.0C overclock speeds (3.6).
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thats one opinion...
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slap a thermalright sp-94 and a 92mm tornado on that 3.0 and with some luck you get that sucker up to 1000mhz FSB, about 3.725 ghz.
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Definately get a new HS and fan if you plan on doing so OCing...
I dont know if this will help at all but my 2.8c did 3200 with totally stock cooling (including the thermal pad I mean) at just over 50C load.
If you do plan on overclocking much I too would recommend the sp94. With the sp94/AS/medium flow 92mm fan, Im about 10C cooler with 200mhz more of an oc (just over 40C load at 3.4). The sp94 is a great heatsink. It doesnt even need a stupidly loud tornado to perform well.
p.s. my 2.8c does 250fsb without getting very hot (less than 60C) but I gotta up the vcore for it to run 100% stable (will run most games and prime95 etc but crashes on some sandra tests). I decided just to leave it a stock vcore and 243mhz fsb.
p.p.s. with the xms3200 you would be better off getting a good heatsink and trying for as close to 250 as you can get at 5:4 cause it doesnt overclock worth a crap unless you got the older bh5 chips in it. A medium oc with your ram underclocked would probably be worse for your overall performance than just going as high as possible with it at 1:1 (only about 206mhz for my corsair 3200).
If you do plan on overclocking much I too would recommend the sp94. With the sp94/AS/medium flow 92mm fan, Im about 10C cooler with 200mhz more of an oc (just over 40C load at 3.4). The sp94 is a great heatsink. It doesnt even need a stupidly loud tornado
to perform well.p.s. my 2.8c does 250fsb without getting very hot (less than 60C) but I gotta up the vcore for it to run 100% stable (will run most games and prime95 etc but crashes on some sandra tests). I decided just to leave it a stock vcore and 243mhz fsb.
p.p.s. with the xms3200 you would be better off getting a good heatsink and trying for as close to 250 as you can get at 5:4 cause it doesnt overclock worth a crap unless you got the older bh5 chips in it. A medium oc with your ram underclocked would probably be worse for your overall performance than just going as high as possible with it at 1:1 (only about 206mhz for my corsair 3200).