yeah your cooling is definitely going to hold you back, that's too bad.

when I refer to your "max overclock", I'm not talking about stress testing. I'm simply referring to the fastest speed you could achieve and still have the PC boot up. to achieve your optimal system overclock (not just the CPU) you want to isolate components to see what each one can handle. then balance them out.

personally I could care less about stress testing. I really don't care if it passes or fails a stress test. as long as it doesn't crash while playing halo/fear/cod2 etc then I'm satisfied with my overclock. if it crashes then I back the overclock down a bit, that's all.

I googled your RAM a little bit and from what I read it can operate at 2-3-3-6 @DDR400 @2.8v so you could try that.

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I dont want to say anything because I might break your computer =P

ya i run it now at 2-3-3-6 but at 2.7 . my new divider is 12 apparently. I just don't understand why my cpu needs more vcore than someone else's....