Expected overclock limit using a Gelid Tranquillo with 2500k?

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Doing a search on here for the Gelid Tranquillo doesn't turn up many results but the reviews were really good for the price so I've taken the plunge and bought one.

Does anyone have an idea of what SB overclock I should be looking at before temps get too high? I'm going to go through the routine of doing it but it would be useful to have some thoughts on what the limits of the cooler are (given it's quite cheap :) ) so I can better trouble shoot - e.g. If I get to 4.4ghz and the temps are shooting up I don't waste time reapplying thermal paste and reseating it as the cooler is at it's limit

I know it will be partly dependent on the volts my chip will take at a particular overclock, but some info is better than none!

PS For those of you wondering why I bought a cooler without knowledge of how far it will get me, I was after a (very) cheap cooler that would fit in my case - it's got really good reviews, but they tests tended not to be on sandybridge chips (i7 950 et al).
 
I am sitting at low 30s idle on a modest 4GHz oc with 1.2v with temps in the low 50s stressed with Prime95 or OCCT. I actually think I could do a better job with the thermal paste so those temps could come down a bit. To give some comparison i was idling low 20s at stock and mid 40s stressed so the oc has increased temps by about 10-15 degrees. I'll do a quick OC to about 4.4/4.5 GHz with about 1.3v and see what temps I am getting and post again tonight.
 
it depends a lot on your chip and motherboard as well as the cooler, but from what ive heard when you get to ~4.6-4.8Ghz there will be a sort of cliff, where to get any more clock speed will need a massive voltage boost to keep it stable. you will probably notice this before you notice the massive temperatures
 
as said above, they will do 4.5-4.9ish most i7 chips ive found hit a wall of around 4.6 before then they need over 1.4v to keep stable and along with that comes a lot of heat. lucky to find 4.7-4.9 that needs under 1.38 volts
 
AshenShugar1873 said:
I am sitting at low 30s idle on a modest 4GHz oc with 1.2v with temps in the low 50s stressed with Prime95 or OCCT. I actually think I could do a better job with the thermal paste so those temps could come down a bit. To give some comparison i was idling low 20s at stock and mid 40s stressed so the oc has increased temps by about 10-15 degrees. I'll do a quick OC to about 4.4/4.5 GHz with about 1.3v and see what temps I am getting and post again tonight.
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OCed to 4.5GHz with 1.3v, not spent any time lowering volts to see if stable at less. Temps now mid 40s idle and low 70s across 3 cores on Prime95 (other core is low 60s). As I said earlier my thermal paste could be beter applied.
 
Room was warm last night but not roasting. I have been thinking about reseating the fan, I suspect I have been a bit heavy handed with the Thermal Paste. I'll probably reseat over the weekend and check the temps again.
 
Well, I've tried 4.5Ghz @1.3v and after an hour of Prime95 I've had a max of 68C on core #2 (others are 62, 64 & 66).

This is in a coolermaster 430 which is not the biggest case in the world but it does have 5 fans running (front & side intake, rear & 2 x top exhaust). Also using IC diamond paste which seems to be well regarded.

Going to try and reduce the volts now as 4.5 is a good enough over clock
 
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