G'day, I've currently got a ZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink cooling an E6600, when idle the cpu is at about 32C peaking at around 50C during burn in. While I was doing the stress test, the fan got up to 2300RPM, it's rated for 2650+-10% though. Do you think this'll be good enough to overclock the system to about 2.8-3GHz? Or should I throw in a better heatsink & fan? if the later, any recommendations? Below is a quick look at the temps during the test Min Max Avg Temperatures MB 27 28 27.7 CPU 31 44 35.5 Core1 40 54 45 Core2 39 50 42.8 CPU Fan 1477 2304 1747 Thanks in advance
Only way to tell is to try it out. If the system looks like its getting too hot, or becomes unstable then lower the overclock a bit.
I agree. There's no point in spending good money... even it's for a better cooler... if it's not needed
Agree whit above. Try to find out yourself by testing. Can say I had mine OC:ed above your goal hitting close to 80 C peak and it didn´t complain at all. Just set the fan speed as high as possible all the time. Sacrifice noise for speed.
There's quite a diff between the cores, have you checked to see how the HSF sits on the CPU, maybe lapping 1/other/both might give you another few degrees to play with.
