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Quick OC Question (920)
- Thread starter Hulk
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Always tough to just throw it out there with OCs, but with a decent chip, RAM and board, 3.8 with a aftermarket cooler should be well within reach. 4.0 or higher takes more tweaking, volts, and heat. 
. It's definitely doable, but it just depends on how much time you are willing to give it.
. It's definitely doable, but it just depends on how much time you are willing to give it.It's kinda hard to say as crackbone stated, to speculate on how high an OC will be. I can say that your limited factors as far as hardware would be related to cooling and power. You didn't specify a cooler, but you'd be looking into the $75 range for a solid CPU cooler (TRUE, Xigmatech, Noctua, etc). Now, I don't know how much a 3.8-4.0GHz i7 pulls from the wall, but your 550W PSU may not be enough to OC the CPU that high, especially if you're running 12GB of RAM. You'll probably want to look at something more in the 750W range, but ask around.
3.5-3.8GHz seems very doable on almost any of the C0 chips out there. 4.0 also seems to be the brick wall that people face. Alternatively, you could wait until D0 chips are out in the wild and see how they OC (they're supposed to perform much better).
3.5-3.8GHz seems very doable on almost any of the C0 chips out there. 4.0 also seems to be the brick wall that people face. Alternatively, you could wait until D0 chips are out in the wild and see how they OC (they're supposed to perform much better).
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get a better power supply and add a top level air cooler and you can get 4ghz all day
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I don't see a HSF in there, so i'm going to say 3.4-3.6 @ most
Save your money by buying only 6GB. You'll be able to afford a top-notch cooler. There is absolutely nothing to gain by going from 6GB to 12GB. Heck 3GB is enough 99.9% of the time. If you don't believe me, read this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/memory-module-upgrade,2264.html
N.B. what that test did not include was anything which is really memory intensive - or multitasking. I currently have 6GB and will soon be going to 12GB - Why ?, simple, heavy Lightroom and Photoshop user - and on top of that I will normally have several other apps running (Outlook, VS, etc depending on what my work load is).
The main thing I would agree with though is get yourself a beefier power supply - not simply from the fact that running at greater than 50%-60% may be within range - but will have the cooling fan on high all the time.