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Hello,

I currently am running a e6700, and recently purchased a QX6850. My setup is as follows:

EVGA 680i LT Mobo
4 Gigs of Corsair Dominator 6400 Memory
Zalman 9500 CPU Cooler
Antec 900 Case

What should I be able to expect to OC this to? Just wondering if anyone has had any success with a similar setup.

Thanks!

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You'll need an aftermarket cooler or water cooling to get far with it, once you get taht 3.6ghz should be no prob. You can probably get much further too.


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I have one, I have the Zalman 9500.

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Very high quality cooler that is, should be able to pass 3.6ghz likely without raising voltages.


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It's been a few days... how high have you gotten it?

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Well, I now have it running completely stable at 3.65 GHz. I upgraded ram to 2 gigs of OCZ DDR2 9200 (1150), and now have had it running for over a week under all kinds of stress and not flinching a bit (WoW, fear, itunes, ventrilo, firefox and skype all at the same time). All I have to say is this thing rocks!


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