What would 5c do?

[yasoumalaka]

I've been testing my rig and taking temperatures at the resevoir and at the cpu ,with mbm5, to see how temperature effects my overclock. I've droped it about 5c so far and it has helped, but I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on how much it would help if I droped it another 5c. Actually I think I could actually drop it 10c with a lot of work. Peace! :toast:

[kouch]

I've been testing my rig and taking temperatures at the resevoir and at the cpu ,with mbm5, to see how temperature effects my overclock. I've droped it about 5c so far and it has helped, but I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on how much it would help if I droped it another 5c. Actually I think I could actually drop it 10c with a lot of work. Peace! :toast:

it will always help to have lower temps, but by how much it will help overclock is impossible to tell. It all depends on the cpu you have. You may get 200mhz extra or you may not get anything at all. Its all luck, but lower temps can only help ;)

[nebuchanezzar]

Well..when I run some cold South Dakota air to my tornado on my CPU I can run 11.5*240 pretty easily around 1.85vC when my CPU temps are single digits, probably higher. When I just run normally and my CPU gets over the 30s about 10.5*240 at the same voltage. Just a thought on what it does but mostly YMMV so try and see.

[killboy]

Do you game?
Temperature is sorta like ping times... it really shows if you go from 300 ms to 200 ms.
And then from 150 to 100 is another huge jump.
And finally 100 to 50 is huge... but not as drastic.
and 50 to 20 is noticeable... but doesn't do as much.
What I'm basically trying to say is that: If you're at -50 degrees and you go down to
-55 then it won't matter much.
But if you go from 45 degrees to 40, it could mean a bigger / more stable overclock.
and from 45 to 35 degrees? It should be very noticeable.

But as everyone here said... if you've maxed your chip out...