petehardy,

You asked for information about my system:

Here you go:

MB = ASUS P5WDH Deluxe
Memory – 2 x 1 OCZ Reaper 1066
CPU - Q6600 SLACR G0
HDD 2 x %00 Gb SATA II WD5000
Video – low end Nvidea 7600 GS
PSU – PcPower & Cooling 750
CPU Cooler – Thermalright Ultra 120 extreme with this fan Panasonic Panaflo FBA12G12U1BX 120 x 38mm Fan Ultra High Speed With RPM Sensor

I lapped the bottom of the CPU Cooler; applied some Artic Silver 5 (yeah I know there's some stuff that's better now but I don't care).



Temps idle / 100 % load after 60 mins





CPU Voltage = 1.38
Memory Voltave 2.1 ( specified by OCZ)

Now, I've got to warn you, if you try this trick, don't blame me if you wipe out a CPU / MB / or other components!

I have had this system clocked up to 3.7 Ghz, but it requires to much over volting on the CPU.

If you are truely interested in OC'ing a machine, I'd suggest going to some of the sites on the net where folks do a lot of OC'ing / moding of their systems and learn ; read ; learn; read ask questons; tinker a little bit (safely of course) and see how it all works.

I'm pretty happy with a 3.4 Ghz Q6600 (I would be happier at 3.7 but I'm not going to push it and wipe out a North / South bridge because I couldn't keep things cool enough.) But this is running a full Ghz higher than stock, and it's on stock voltages (well, kinda) and it's a 40% OC.

Hope this helps.

---Barney