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Hia all,
Most of us are able to get the maximum overclock out of our equipment; the cost of this is usually investing in much better cooling and living with the extra heat and noise.
Since I got my E6400 I have lived with pumping 1.4V Vcore (+100Mv) to get my 3.2Ghz out of it, mainly due to quite bad Vdroop on this board. Temps were always 65-70C after 5 mins of Orthos and stayed that way for 24 hour Orthos stable. I was considering investing in quite expensive watercooling to try and lower my temps.
Then I did something quite drastic - I dropped my Overclock
back down to 3.0Ghz (375FSB) best thing is I can get this completely stable with only 1.3125V Vcore. Temps are always <58C
and I can now drop my NB Volts to Auto and my memory too. Also I don't notice the drop in performance at all, just cooler and quieter.
Here is my screenie - Sorry just refomatted and added Raid0 so I lost my Orthos stable shots - call Shins if you like I don't care
So come on then what is your Overclock sweetspot - Where you get slightly less performance but for a big gain in heat and dropping the Volts?
Most of us are able to get the maximum overclock out of our equipment; the cost of this is usually investing in much better cooling and living with the extra heat and noise.
Since I got my E6400 I have lived with pumping 1.4V Vcore (+100Mv) to get my 3.2Ghz out of it, mainly due to quite bad Vdroop on this board. Temps were always 65-70C after 5 mins of Orthos and stayed that way for 24 hour Orthos stable. I was considering investing in quite expensive watercooling to try and lower my temps.
Then I did something quite drastic - I dropped my Overclock


Here is my screenie - Sorry just refomatted and added Raid0 so I lost my Orthos stable shots - call Shins if you like I don't care


So come on then what is your Overclock sweetspot - Where you get slightly less performance but for a big gain in heat and dropping the Volts?
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