OCed Opteron 165/170 Retail with Stock Cooling, have you done it?

[starwars7]

Hey there, I recently purchased an Opteron 165 and could only find the Retail verison. I haven't purchased any after market cooling for it and was wondering if someone who has a 165 OCed it with stock cooling could let me know how it went.

And to those of you who don't think it will OC well without an after market cooler, which one do you like?

I've heard good things about the Thermalright XP-90.

Thanks!

 

[starwars7]

Looks like this has already been covered here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...adid=1788247&STARTPAGE=2&enterthread=y

and here:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=399

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content...copteroncooling&page=1&cookie%5Ftest=1


Very interesting!

 

[Centoros]

At first, I overclocked mine with the stock cooler and it did a nice job of keeping the processor cool. The only reason i'm using a zalman cooler now is because the stock was too noisy for me.