I enjoy having a snappy computer. I hate having to wait for the dang things. I also enjoy playing some graphically intense games from time to time, but as I grow older there is not as much time for games as there used to be. What I do with my computer in my off time is donate computing time to the Folding@home project. I run four folding programs (one on each CPU) and one on the GPU (folds much faster than even four CPU's). A friend of mine has Alzheimers. It is too late for him unless a cure is found soon, but it would be great if a cure was found and others didn't have to go through it. So, I enjoy squeezing the most out of my computer to fold with a vengeance. I was hoping to get to 4.0Ghz (especially with the cooling system that I have), but I can't make it much past 3.6Ghz. I do realize the frame rate difference is minimal in any games (much better to work on the video card for that). So, next, I am buying the BFG GTX285. That should fold and play games just fine (almost twice as many SP's).
yeah we all have different goals.
i am in to the gaming side but I dont like going over 1.50v's.
If you are comfortable with 1.50V's then keep going. i just have not seen any real facts that this is safe even if its cool?
I was not too happy with overclocking these phenom2's over 1.50 to get a decent overclock.
and yeah try NB speeds of 2 - 2.4Ghz with volts of 1.3 - 1.45