that its possible to over clock to reasonable temps with spending very little money hence stock cooling............... id you use stock thermal paste aswell???? and that cpu would get a little too hot for my tastes when on load
I know my #'s are no big deal, but keep in mind I have rather inexpensive parts. Stock cooling, cheap case, low end memory, $3 fans, and yet I'm able to achieve 3.4ghz.
My friends b1 and guru thought I was joking when I said I was using stock cooling and working with 3.4ghz. Anyway, the point is that it's very possible to oc an e6600 this high with stock cooling.
I want to point on thing out, last night I ran orthos for 1hr...then it crashed.
Thanks to b1 and guru, I now understand that 1hr or less w/orthos then crashing means it's unstable. However, I argue that my pc will less than likely ever work under ortho's kind of lstress. I do video editing and photoshop work(personal use) and under these workloads, my e6600 handles its business!!! So for my kind of everyday pc use, stock hsf and the temps I work with are very acceptable to me.
So again, I'm aware that 3.4ghz is nothing new. I'm not the first nor the last to do it.
Thanks again to b1 and guru...u guys made me push it this far. 8^)
P.S. Last night I pushed it to 3.5 for 10 min while surfing the net....but I'm very happy at 3.4....