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Originally Posted by Syncamorea The PC I'm surfing on now was put together for overclocking competitions four years ago. The CPU (QX9650), mobo and GPU were overvolted and cooled with chilled water. I managed to bench at over 4.8GHz on multithreaded applications, won comps, yada yada. Since retiring from comps, the water cooling was stripped off and replaced by quiet air cooling heatsinks, and it's been my surfing and video editing machine for 3 years. With zero restores. It's been used and abused and it just keeps on cruising. Zero restores. Nada. 4.8GHz. No restores. |
Do you have any tips on a good mobo for getting my QX9650 to those speeds, I have a really huge passive tower cpu cooler but a crap OCing mobo as in Asus P5k got it stable around 4.2 (at 40¨C) but not beyond with 800Mhz Ram. Any advice is welcome