OCing E6600! What is the best Ghz and memory?

[k77316]

Hey,

Im new to OC and about to purchase E6600 with Asus Striker.

What is the best Ghz to overclock it with stock cooler?

What about a better cooler and water cooling?

Im also wondering what is the best memory speed to get the most of the OC? 800 or faster?

Thanks for your answers!

 

[Chil]

1.) Best Ghz is the highest you can get with the system still being stable.
2.) Yes better cooling, especially water cooling, will allow you to OC higher.
3.) DDR2-800 is very good for OCing. Pretty much the only thing that could beat it is DDR2-1000 or 1066 in some cases.

 

[k77316]

Thanks for your answer.

Is it best to buy 800 CL4 or 1066 CL5?

What about FSB and memory running at the same speed? Or does that matter?

Thanks

 

[sprint-1]

My corsair 2x512mb xms2 cas4 twinx epp (needed a bios flash to run it) ddrII 800 runs up to 1200Mhz with nothing special apart from 2.3V. 1 stick is slightly faster than the other - ~30Mhz. £105 for the pair.