Hi, this is my first time overclocking, and because it seemed too easy to step my E4300 up to 3 GHZ, I am really scrutinizing the safety of my OC. after reading the entire C2D FAQ and cpu temp guide, I still don't know if I am safe...anyhow I was wondering if ppl can chime in here. My OC SEEMS to be within safe specs, except, that the idle to load on full tat hits 25C, but once in a while when i get to about 10 min full TAT, it spikes o 67 or rarely, 68 degrees. I am using the Tuniq Tower cooler, using TAT to test 100% load, on a Gigabyte P965-DS3 rev 3.3, Stock Vcore. I initially upped the vcore a little as per the C2D OC guide, but I then reduced it back to stock after the OC as it seemed to work fine under stock Vcore conditions. If you need any more info please let this noob know! TIA!!
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