Yeah, like RyderOCZ said, it all depends on the right cooling. For air cooling, I've heard that 3.2-3.4 is approaching the limits of stability. Water will give you more headroom and if you got with phase or high power peltier cooling 4 GHz is reachable.
In regards to overclocking, high FSB is more difficult to acheive with a quad core intel, but you should still be able to get a decent amount of headroom out of it.
Hey do any of you know of a recent book (2006 or 07) or online guide that will give me the step by step on how to build one of these puppies myself?
I think after this current purchase I want to build my next hypermachine, but most of the books I have seen are more than 2 years old, and in this business that is a long time.
I always wanted to do a cost comparison to see what the savings would be.
Stuff only fits one way. That's what I tell everyone to get them started, along with if the numbers match, it will work in most cases. Just be sure to not skimp on a power supply, and don't be scared of changing tech. In six months, the computer you choose will be obsolete.
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That will depend on voltage supplied to the CPU...2.6 - 2.8 maybe on stock voltage sometimes (depends on the chip).
I have seen the 6600 running over 4GHz with the right cooling.
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz Q6600 Quad Core Processor
EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Dual DVI Video
4GB DDR2 800 Memory 4-4-4-12
In regards to overclocking, high FSB is more difficult to acheive with a quad core intel, but you should still be able to get a decent amount of headroom out of it.
I think after this current purchase I want to build my next hypermachine, but most of the books I have seen are more than 2 years old, and in this business that is a long time.
I always wanted to do a cost comparison to see what the savings would be.