Soldato
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Well, for one, that's a small case and the airflow may not be as cool coming in or as efficient in general, though that will depend a lot on what yours has in it and cable management. Also, perhaps the thermal contact is bad between the HS? Did both that and the chip look flat? I know my CPU is far from flat atm! Also, every chip is different, some generate more heat and run hotter than others, perhaps you'rs isn't the very best.
What voltage does it need for 4ghz then?
If you mean me, Im not going for 4. I think a Quad running stably at 3-3.6Ghz is enough, thats going to stress any air cooling, unless you have an exceptional chip, hits about 73 doing max stress linpack on all the cores, which given its a damn warm day here atm for the time of year is pretty decent. Contact with the cooler is fine, as I dropped temps substantially changing to this cooler from a Zalman 9700. Im pretty sure it's the power though considering as other failed overclocks just reboot, my corsair isn't new anymore and will have aged a bit.

Shame really as I memtested my ram stable for 10 hours at 960 (480!) and it's only DDR2 800, for 2GB Dimms, that's pretty decent (2.05v up from 2v, as figured the tiny extra may help)

Edit: nm realised you meant the guy I was responding to also!
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