AMD Phenom II 960 3.2GHz X4 Black Edition OC.

So I'm wondering what the max I can safely overclock this processor to is. I'm running it on air.

A friend of mine told me I could easily get it to at least 3.5GHz safely, since there's (what seems to be) a 3.5GHz version of the processor.

Thoughts?

Around 4ghz stable, depending on cooling, possibly more if you're other hardware is up to it.

I've got the 965BE Phenom 2, It's stocked at 3.4 and I can get it to 3.8 rather easy, I can get it to a stable 4.0 with some tinkering, however anything above that is rather nasty. Try overclocking in the BIOS rather than a OC program, so you can properly see your RAM clocking... Also remember that large overclocking (+15%) will result in your RAM being strained harshly if it's more than two dimms in a Dual Channel Array!