Quote Originally Posted by GamingDaemon View Post
Are these other threads just confused??
Maybe not confused, but extremely conservative. Personally, I'm running my E6600 at stock voltage because the chicken in me doesn't like idle temps over 40c, which is what they approach at 1.5. Plus I can get 3.24ghz stock and the trade-off between temps, fan noise, and an extra 0.36ghz which won't even be felt in games was a bit too much for my tastes. I like cool and quiet. 2.4ghz --> 3.24ghz is a massive jump for a processor not needing extra voltage ... pretty impressive enough for me.

Listen to gtj, and most other overclocking guides. 1.5 is fine.

I have a question for our resident master myself ... I'm running the exact same OCZ Plat Rev2 memory you are ... at the rated 4-4-4-15. Thinking of starting to tighten the timings ... should it be able to do 4-4-4-11? Faster?

Or, conversely, would I get better memory performance by going from 266/533 to 266/667 ... overclocking the memory to 902mhz? Voltage is stable with 4 sticks at 1.92 underclocked at 722mhz right now. Just wondering what you think.