at what voltages should is top at ?

and shuold i raise my pll and etc

Your settings are independant to your computer, teh hamsteyr seems to have a superior computer...so his max would be slightly higher than yours. It kinda depends on your motherboard, cooling, and the CPU itself.

Just keep your temperatures in check with a reliable source, and if their low enough at full load, then you know you can push it some more.

@hamsteyr
I know you just added your avatar because i told you i forgot mine all this time =.=.

i prolly applied mine bad the thermal compound

probably.. clean up the surfaces and redo it o.o as for kitty man, yes and no : P

lol anyways, yes i will try to redo my thermal compound first

i have like a 30 dollar case =[ rofl its a mid tower so its all good with only 1 120mm fan tho, i should put one on the side

right now im at 3ghz stable at 1.35v core and im still getting higher temps than you LOL

ocz gladiator max should be fine though right

and im sure my cable management should be OK... rofl ill show you guys a pic in a bit

Thats weird then. I've just got the Budget Killer Freezer 7 Pro. Its not the highest in its class but its value for money lol...

I think you should save and invest on a Full tower ATX case then... It'll help in many ways, especially if you're going to get a full sized motherboard and long graphics card.

ROFL well im using the weird thermal compound that came with it, plus, it was not properly put on

let me tell you exactly what i did ROFL

-put a blab of thermal compound

-put my heatsink on top of it

-waited 5 seconds and took lifted it up again

-i thought it looked really uneven so i spread the paste on my cpu

- then put my heatsink back on

-now i realized that yeah .... rofl

... LOL OK? Did you even "even out" the thermal compound using something like a business card before you slapped it on? >.>

You do know you gotta do that right... the thickness of the spreading on the heatsink shouldn't be more than 1mm imho... around 1/2 a mm...

no im sure its was too LITTLE, lots of gaps between my heatsink and etc

cause i flattened the paste with my heatsink

then spread it

I... don't quite think you spread it right there... Its not supposed to be gappy >.> what indeed have you done and why are you using the heatsink to spread it...

How i do it is take the heatsink, blob a tad in the middle. Take a business card or anything rigid like a ruler and in circular tilted motions, spread the paste slowly and evenly over your heatsink... Then install it and let it sit, don't touch it anymore...

Its hard to get too little honestly... 3/4 of a mm to be safe is what i do :X but i'm sure you could go less... do understand that if you put too much as well you mess up the contact between the heatsink and the CPU.

Thermal paste is just a conductive medium because its virtually impossible to have the heatsink and CPU obtain a seamless contact :X

Too much and you will get higher temps and too little you will burn up the thermal paste...

well i reapplied the same crappy thermal compound that came with ocz, my temps have lowered to 62 max at 3.2ghz, i still cant seem to get to 3.4ghz stable, even at 1.45v, it gets errors and restarts

Well, then i suppose your max is 3.2 then.. :X different chips have different max-es >_>

hey hamsteyr if you have msn that'd be good email removed

im running p95 small fft test atm 3.4ghz at 1.475v ROFL thats like .1 volt more than you

so anyways i see it at 69 degrees atm max and its been around 10 minutes

haha no emails it said. Throw it over in a PM or something if you must xD

anyways, i finally went to 1.49v, was stable for half an hour, right when i was about to turn off computer, blue screened and restarted

so now im at 1.5v ROFL

try not to overvolt your CPU... you'll possibly cook it or reduce its lifespan tremendously

hmm im at 1.389v right now i changed my multiplier to 8x and it seems more stable

3.2ghz atm

ic ic i'm at 9 multiplier o.o

oh i have a VID of 1.325 =[