Probably depends how much you want to volt and deal with heat. My E6600 was probably the easiest OC I've done. I was able to run up the chip from the stock 2400mhz to 3150 at 1.35 volts (MB) 1.31 actual. I'm now at 3300 with 1.41v (MB) 1.38V actual and it's great. I got to 3400, but I was...
If you're brave enough, you can lap the processor. I found mine was really bad, not so noticable until you start lapping. Also make sure you change your fan speed to 100%.
After all that, an aftermarket cooler will help. I have the Scythe Infinity, but it's really a bit overkill for these...
I think you're right about the processor surface. I wasn't really happy with my temperatures of the northbridge, so I decided to reset it evga 680i with AS5 and the cooler while I was at it.
I noticed how the surface of the processor is really rough compared to the cooler, so I decided to do...
I could only get to 2.45 with 1.40 volts which was the max my ASROCK 939 dual would do. I then did the voltmod to get 1.50 volts out of the board and was getting 2.6, but it was getting pretty hot at that point even with a zalman 7000. I was getting up into the mid 60's with orthos running...
After about a week of playing, I have this board up and running great. I did have my share of problems off the start though.
First off it recognized my corsair dominator 6400c4d DDR2800 ram at slower timings 5-5-5-18 and 1.8V!. Changing the 1.8V to 2.1 solve most of my problems, I'm just...
I have the Scythe Infinity on my E6600 and evga 680i board. It was a little tight next to the NB cooler, but all I had to do was modify one of the fan clips so it wasn't slid all the way down.
I'm running 1.35 volts on the board which is about 1.31 in speedfan, and it easly went up to where...
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