Quote Originally Posted by LIKMARK View Post
If you got the 5200+ with the stepping you have in the sig, you should be able to reach 3Ghz at reasonable voltages. It will be faster than a 5000BE at the same speed, wouldn't call it a bad move exactly.
yup that my proc on my sig

able to reach 3ghz on my black @ 1.35 stock vcore but on this 5200+ able to reach 3ghz @ 1.42vcore... it freezes on a 1.38vcore so have to bumped to 1.42v