how high do you think a 3.0C could go on air?

[cruz610]

Zalman 7000CU to cool her off, what do you think the highest it could go would be? Corsair XMS PC3500 [rated 2-7-3-3 @ stock]

 

[Technonut]

One never knows for sure.... More than likely a minimum of 3.2GHz.

 

[Knightcomm]

I got one I was building recently up to 3.6GHz, but with a different cooler. The Zalman it probably the same quality as the SLK900U I used. The nice thing you do not have to worry about is burning up the processor. If you saw that movie at tomshardware, you know what I am talking about. Definitely start around 3.3, and go from there. Nice choice on RAM, I am using that in a new puter I made from mostly spare parts.

 

[Nebor]

I have the same stuff, on an IC7-G... Running the ram at 2-2-2-5 @ 224mhz 2.8v , I can get up near 3.4ghz, with Street Racer GAT settings. Anything past 224mhz results in random restarts, and memory errors in memtest. Maybe if I relaxed the timings\GAT I could go higher?

Nevertheless, I don't do anything that requires even 1ghz of computing power, so getting 3.6ghz is just pointless endangering of my precious rig.

 

[FPSguy]

3750 is the highest 3.0C overclock on air reported in the Overclockers.com database.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: FPSguy
3750 is the highest 3.0C overclock on air reported in the Overclockers.com database.

Wow.... that's quite an overclock... That's like 25%

 

[lchyi]

The chance of getting a proc that will do 3750 on air is 1/"RossMAN's Post count" probably.

 

[stardust]

my old 3.0C went to 3510 and quit... it didn't die, just couldn't go farther

 

[FPSguy]

The average 3.0C overclock (at Overclockers.com) is 3557.

One guy in the Overclockers database reports a 3800 overclock for a 2.4C on air!!! How's that for long odds?