e6600 Overclock

Hi everyone,


I've had an e6600 for about a year and loved the CPU until recently when I got WAR. It's been a bit choppy in game and since I run with 3GB RAM and 9800GTX+ I couldn't help but think it was being bottlenecked by the CPU. Well, sure enough it was. I OCed it from 2.4Ghz to 3.0GHZ using the built in MIB(not sure if that's the acronym?) Gigabyte technology and doing a bit of research got a program called Prime95, ran it for a few minutes and wasn't showing temps above 55c with NVIDIA system monitor. When I run WAR the CPU temps stay between 44-46C and I was wondering if this was stable enough to run.

Sorry for bothering you with my newbie questions!

Thanks,
Jake

also you should run prime95 for 8+ hours, not just for a couple minutes. This will stress the system and make sure it is stable without a shadow of a doubt. I would imagine that you are in a good shape with the load temps only hitting 55 but its always better to be safe then sorry

If that's with the stock cooler, you're running nicely. Just make sure you run Prime95 for several hours.

I read somewhere that people with C2Ds should use the Intel Thermal Analysis tool as it reads temperatures different than most programs. If that is the true case, I am running at 55-58 under load. Are these acceptable temperatures?