electron migration and shit :)
 

due to the fact that
1. I didn't need the excess power for the moment since I'm barely using the p4 setup these last few days. (no gaming, lotsa office work to catch up, hot weather)
2. I got a bit scared seeing what happened with the overclockability on the ^p4 after exposing it to high voltages for some benching time (it went down!)

I decided to find a sweetspot.

what I needed was
1. a totally primestable setup
2.a vcore that (almost :) ) never went above 1.70 (to be sure it wouldn't cause any trouble, since multiple sources speak of 1.75+ vcore problems)
3.highest possible corefrequency that could take 1 and 2

I got to 3020 mhz at a mean of 1.66 Vcore primestable.
should be fast enough to get me thru the next few months with no danger whatsoever.





idle = 47 ° under roomtemp
stressed = 38°'s under roomtemp :)

3Ghz+ is fast enough for me. :)

If I were you I'd concentrate on serious GPU cooling instead of CPU. 3.0 or 3.3 Ghz makes less differance than 330Mhz - 360Mhz GPU i assume...

I let it on 2.8Ghz all the time, 1.57 vcore.
it's fast enough for me...

nice temps btw :hail: