the best way is to get the cpu and try it yourself. on watercooling, i think 1.6ghz is reachable, cuz on air i ran a
[email protected] and im sure that that cpu on my current watercooling rig would definetly be good to go about 50mhz higher. but that was using a 1.4ghz.
that cpu database has people posting up totally unstable scores. there is a big difference between getting windows to boot up and running prime95 stable for a few hours. im sure that people in there post up high scores just to look good.
the strange thing is that from what ive worked with the scores on there are about 50-100mhz too high on tbs at around 1-1.4ghz.
get the cpu, overclock it and see what it ll do, if it does better than 1.450mhz, then u can come back and tell us, but if it doesnt make it past 1450mhz, dont be too surprised...like i said, its a shame that the people on the database are allowed to post up overclocks which are not stable.
in fact, ive just noticed the signatures of people who have posted in this thread:
TBird 900 AGGA @ 130*8 (1040)
AMD Thunderbird 1200 AXIA "9" @ 1331 (148x9)
[email protected]
Athlon XP 1.4GHz @ 1.53GHz
now if u compare the above scores (which are probably alot more realistic) with the database. the database for sure will come up with results on average about 100mhz higher. cuz the people who have posted in this thread are real, many of the scores people post in the database are over stated (perhaps too look good). take those database scores with a pinch of salt. what i find strange is that a guy who uses water to cool his cpu (ie. me) is unable to overclock his cpu further than the average person in the cpu database, a majority of which are using air to cool their cpu...there's gotta be something going on there.