The Road to 3.5GHz on air

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Update(June 16):
Took out heatsink on both my GPU and my CPU, cleaned everything with 70% isopropyl and applied new thermal paste.
Lowered my temps about 2c on my CPU idle and 4c on my GPU idle.



Update(June 12):
Finally broke the 3.1GHz line while running at ~29c with stock volts :]
can't wait for my DFI Expert DR to come in! :]


UPDATE(June 11):
I won a DFI Expert SLI-DR for $56 + shipping.

I have seen this done only once before (but it was water cooled), so I wanted to give it a shot.

I have an AMD 3800+ X2 Toledo Core with E6 stepping.
1Gig DDR400 (512 PQI 2.5-3-3-7 | 512 Geil 2.5-3-3-8)
Asus A8V-XE mobo

Current highest reached: 3075MHz
Current highest stable (superpi and wprime): 3065MHz

Getting to 3.0GHz from 2Ghz was a breeze, the only annoying thing is that the Asus A8V-XE has an overclock stop after 2.7GHz, so I have to do the rest in ClockGen.
After I get to about 3059 or 3065 it won't go up anymore even though clockgen says it should. Sometimes it might crawl up to the next setting but it would go back down or only do it while the CPU is in usage. This makes no sense as I do not have any "Cool'n'Quite" things installed and all those options are disabled in my BIOS.

Anyways here are some screenshots.

Best SuperPi (Stock is ~45s)


PinMod to 1.6v



Any help would be awesome!


My CPU HS is
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835200023


Thanks!
Also check out my HWBot (it should be in my sig).