Overclocking is absolutely nuts!

[lokkers]

Evolution, gotta love it.

Indeed - seems like everyone is doing it now, not at all like the old days!

Speaking of which, I've just put mine back in my box - aircooling just isn't hardcore enough

 

[beast]

Cheers for temp postings!

I'm thinking of getting the AC7 but am tempted by the huge HSFs...but having to put some of the mounting under the motherboard is putting me off a bit.

Is the general opinion that the AC7 is suitable for overclocking up to X6800 speeds? If so I'll be ordering one tomorrow!

Thanks.

Those temps were at 3.2GHZ speed on stock volts. X6800 is easy meat!

 

[TheBigCheese]

Well I hope so as I've got an AC7 sat in my machine now!

It certainly does the biz...my temps are currently 29/33 running Winamp, Thunderbird and many Firefox tabs....good good

Just need to learn how to overclock it now!

 

[Van Diemen]

Not sure on that matt!! Just got my stereotyped head around the fact that making a cpu faster doesn't mean it will self implode. It's gonna take at least another month for me to overcome the words water, and PC in one sentence

I was the same as you. My E6600 arrived a few weeks ago, stock cooler could not cut it. Got an AC7 Pro (Crap - IMO), 2 days later arrives a TuniqTower (Very good). Now been 3 weeks since I got the C2D & yes you guessed it Water cooling on its way to me now. Online tracking shows its already out for delivery today. (Ooohh, I cant wait)