Quote Originally Posted by BeastNotro View Post
I would give a shot as with good air cooling which he has a decent cooler, he could get 3.6ghz maybe around 1.45-1.46-1.48, but it will be trial and error on other settings in BIOS too.

There is no 100% such a thing that 3.6ghz from 1.30 VID and over can't do so with air cooling as it can be done and i am sure has been done ... need good air flow is all if the chip needs high volts.

Oh just to add my friend has Q9450 45nm and his temps under load folding is very similar to mine and he runs a Scythe Ninja Rev B .. i had one sold it for my Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme.

He is at 3.6ghz ... point is .. even a Q9450 45nm at 3.6ghz similar HEAT and he is at 1.35-1.38 volts for it to be Orthos stable 24hrs and linpack v3 stable 10 loops.
There is no "try"... The chips I've gotten have all been hit or miss. On the bad chips I tried countless sets of voltages and settings and whatnot, and in the end it just comes down to what chip you got. 3.6GHz was a easy feat in the early days of G0, but not anymore.
There is no 100% thing, but there is a 99% thing. You're a lucky one, just don't expect everyone else to get the same results.

The Q9450 I got couldn't do 3.6GHz, period.

There are a lot of people who take good chips for granted, and there are a lot more who get smacked in the face with a brick wall again and again.

There was one guy here who got around SIX 1.3000v+ VID Q6600s IN A ROW... none of them could do 3.4GHz, much less 3.6GHz. There are a lot of people here who would KILL for an AVERAGE chip, and it all comes down to luck.