Has anyone OC'd a wolfdale celeron on air with good results?

[WARDOZER9]

Running the E3300 @ 3.7ghz on stock volts with a Xiggy HDT-D1284 HSF on loset fan setting ( 800rpm ) and the CPU is stable and never breaks 53* C :D

I just ordered the parts for my HTPC and the CPU is an E3300. I've poked around a few forums and found random instances of people getting to 3 - 3.2ghz on stock voltages but has anyone really pushed one of the E3xxx Wolfdale Celerons to see what they are capable of on air?

I won't get my motherboard till tomorow but it's a sad little Zotac NF610i-L-E 7050 based mobo and I imagine that more than anything will limit my OC attempts but that was just to meet my current HTPC budget and the mobo will be upgraded down the road to something more capable.

On a side note, has anyone reached 3ghz+ on a wolfdale celeron and found anything like an 8800GTS G92 to be bottlenecked by the CPU in gaming?

[[XC] hipno650]

im not all to sure what a E3300 would do but I have a E1200 and she clocks to 3.2 on a total junk P965 board on a stock Prescott cooler.

your E3300 should do much better then that...

as to at 3GHZ bottlenecking your 8800gts, all game Dependant but i know my E1200 bottle necks even a 3870 in some games and badly in 3Dmark06 (everyones favorite game:p:)

[Ccaution]

You won't over clock - you won't even boot. Your board doesn't support s775 cpus :/

[CrazyNutz]

Yeah umm, the zotac 6100 is an AMD board:eek:

Anyhow I've used a e3200 that would oc to 3.5 on stock volts, and a e3300 that would oc to 3.2 on stock volts. Both stayed under 55c with the stock little HSF.

Also the 1mb of cache makes gamming a little painful, It's just not as smooth. If you spring a little more for the pentium wolfdale 2m cache
you will have a much better experience. I have a system with a e5500@4ghz, and a system with a e8400@4ghz, and I can't tell a difference when gamming.

[WARDOZER9]

The computer will spend more time as an HTPC than playing games so the reduced cache shouldn't be too cumbersome.

It's a Zotac NF610I-L-E my bad.

[WARDOZER9]

Well, 3.33ghz isn't 100% stable on this board but when I went from the cheap Rosewill PSU to the Antec TP3 650 from an old gaming rig I went from max bootable of 3.125ghz 250x12.5 to being able to succesfully run 3.2ghz 266x12. I can get 333x9 to run but neither 266x12.5 or 333x10 are stable with 333x10 not even loading windows but it will post consistently.

I am still using the stock heatsink here while I clean out and get new tubing for a Gigabyute Galaxy II WC kit I got as a hand me down so maybe that will help but I'm not dead set on using that kit over a high end top-down 120 or 140mm heatsink yet. I'm kind of leaning towards the top down heatsink so I can cool the vregs, mos's and chipset better although I can mount a silent 120mm fan in the case somehow if I use the WC setup as well as being able to WC the chipset.

[WARDOZER9]

Well, I can't get 3.8ghz on stock volts but it does run 3.7 with stock volts under a Xiggy HDT-1284 with the fan only running 800rpm :D Never breaks 53*C either :D