Best drop in upgrade for an Overclocked E6400?

[DivideBYZero]

My E6400 is running @3Ghz. What's the best bang for the buck replacement I can just drop in to my P5B?

 

[cubeless]

if u r near a microcenter get a q9550... ought to go to 3.8ghz with good cooling... or find one on fs/ft... list at ne is kind of high... i'm eol'ing my older systems with them... should be a viable platform for another couple years...

 

[Arkaign]

I think DBZ is a Brit IIRC, if so I doubt MicroCenter is around. But yeah, either a Q6700 or Q9550 would both be great drop-ins, so long as they don't equal the cost of an i5/board/ram, which at this point they almost certainly don't.

No guarantees, but with an average Air Cooler, 3.4-3.6ghz shouldn't be very hard with either.

 

[DivideBYZero]

True, I am a Brit.

Best price I can find for a Q6700 is £139. Not bad, but I might as well push my current chip to 3.2Ghz and leave it there. It runs unstable at 3.2 right now, but I have never done a comprehensive overclock on this, just dropped it in and upped the frequency. That and it's still only on the Intel OEM cooler.

 

[DivideBYZero]

OK, pushed my current chip to 3.2Ghz stable. Always knew it could do it. This will do for another year or so, then I'll move platform (again...).