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Originally posted by Phyrox
What it all comes down to is your hardware and your skill. Most 3.2Cs will do 4ghz with phasechange. Now does it matter if a vapochill pe will get you 3.9 or if a mach2 will get you 4.1.. NO IT DOES NOT. Ted has a 3.2c that will do 4.2ghz on a vapo and 4ghz on air I think. It’s the chip that matters. In stead of spending crazy money on cooling I think people should keep their current phase change cooling system so they don’t loose money and if their pockets are heavy spend money on a better videocard, lianli mod instead of using ugly stock case and sides, nice speakers, some more ram. The good useful things. I see people buying a $150 videocard but are getting a mach2. That is REALLY stupid. Skill matters too. By upgrading to better cooling it does not guarantee you anything at all. I saw like 2 people using a mach2 on cpu and a vapochill xe on the gpu…And their 3dmark 01 score is 24k!?!?!?!?!? See what I mean. A little better cooling proves nothing. If you have great cooling but crappy results people would think your dumb.
Just my $.02
If you can't get good results with PC-cooling you are either very stupid or you have sh*tty hardware. Overclocking is very simple and straightforeward. I don't really believe in skills. It's all about the effort and the time you putt in. The more you read and think the more you will get out of the hardware. Unless offcourse you're stuck with a bad cpu or vidcard or something.