Overclocking using air cooling only

How long is a piece of string? Same question essentially. Is your CPU one of the SLACR 95w editions? What is the airflow like in your case? What cooler would you be using? Which motherboard? What Ram? Etc etc and even then people could only give a very rough guess, it will depend on so many variables. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
How long is a piece of string? Same question essentially. Is your CPU one of the SLACR 95w editions? What is the airflow like in your case? What cooler would you be using? Which motherboard? What Ram? Etc etc and even then people could only give a very rough guess, it will depend on so many variables. :)
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor

Antec 900 case, good airflow, Gigabyte motherboard, 4*1GB Crucial ballistix RAM, no extra cooling as of yet suggestions welcome :)
 
Tuniq Tower or Noctua NH-U12F are both pretty good air coolers and people have got some excellent results with them. Perhaps the best would be a Thermalright U120 and add your own fan but apparantly they often need lapping to make the best contact.

Rough guess would be somewhere in the region of 3.4ghz to 3.6ghz but that is based on nothing more than me liking the numbers. ;)
 
semi-pro waster said:
Tuniq Tower or Noctua NH-U12F are both pretty good air coolers and people have got some excellent results with them. Perhaps the best would be a Thermalright U120 and add your own fan but apparantly they often need lapping to make the best contact.

Rough guess would be somewhere in the region of 3.4ghz to 3.6ghz but that is based on nothing more than me liking the numbers. ;)
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I agree with him - good advice - again

you should be able to get around 3.4 and if you try hard/are lucky/have good cooling up to 3.6. Q6600 G0 that is.
 
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