Do you think I can hit 4ghz?

[metloaf]

For some reason I got this bug up my butt about getting into the 4ghz club so I broke down and ordered a Vapochill XE II which is now on the way. I know that I have seen a few members who were able to hit 4ghz+ with the
E6400 and I wanted to make sure that I could also with the setup that I have in my sig+ Vapochill XE II. According to my wife I am well past my budget for the year for PC parts, so I want to do this without any further upgrades if possible. What do you guys think? :santa:

[meionm]

Doable with vapo but it all depend on cpu.

[xenotick]

It'll come down to your motherboard probably more than the CPU - you'd need to reach 500FSB on the mobo unless you're willing to move to a 6600/X6800.

[greenmaji]

The majority of E6400's can do it with that mobo and ram.
you should be good to go, but DI with a borrowed tube would have been MUCH cheaper LOL

[metloaf]

I was able to get up to 3.63 when I increased the vcore on the CPU and RAM a little but I didnt really push it that bad or tweek the memory yet. It did stay 32M superpi stable. :)

[deathman20]

Mines not the best clocking E6400 but I can hit 3.5Ghz with relative ease, and 3.6 isn't out of the question for me on air. With Vapo that should lower the temp nicely and probably give you a nice increase in speed at what ever voltage you have currently. But of course pumping 1.675V in bios or something might be needed to get it to that 4Ghz barrier. If you want a better goal go for 4,256Mhz :) 100% OC hehe

As green said it will be more of a motherboard restriction then anything. Make sure you get some nice cooling on the northbridge and if you can the southbridge as well since you'll want to up there voltage. On a note the south bridge gets damn hot at stock or even 1.6V without a fan over it or at least blowing direct air on it, highly advise putting cooling on it if you haven't already. Mine without any cooling will hit 50C on the heatsink in a few min of booting with 1.6V, so who knows what it was like on the actual chip. Putting a 120mm fan in the area (blowing on the SB, video card, partial on ram and NB) cooled it down to 33C max load. That might help stability. Just so you know.

[metloaf]

Thats a good point about cooling the NB, and I am considering getting a water block for it to lower the temps. I will change the water loop that I have currently and only cool my GPU and possibly the NB with it so it should not be an issue hopefully.

[greenmaji]

I would think 1.65Vcore would do it :shrug:
Alot of phase users add a fan to the stock cooler or use the TR HR-05

[hUMANbEATbOX]

you shouldn't NEED to wc the nb to get 4ghz, but if you can, why not? it may help you if you decide that 4ghz just isn't enough. ;)

[PhysX]

you cant hit it:)

[deathman20]

Watercooling might be overkill on the WB and might not prove that usefull if its in a loop with the GPU. Just more or less add a better air cooler to it that should do more then plenty, or at vary least add a fan ontop of it, that will drop the temps dramatically on the NB.

[metloaf]

The way I look at is...I will try the simplest thing first, which will be air cooling and if there are any issues, then I will watercool it. That should also keep my wife happy for now, a fan is a lot cheaper than another water block. :rolleyes:

[deathman20]

The way I look at is...I will try the simplest thing first, which will be air cooling and if there are any issues, then I will watercool it. That should also keep my wife happy for now, a fan is a lot cheaper than another water block. :rolleyes:

Ya and keeping her happier is much better then her trying to slash your budget for next year.