Quote Originally Posted by FlanK3r View Post
Olivion, you are smart guy, thinking...HWbot is community of OCs, do you really mean, they have only one CPU? No, most of them tested few chips and show only the best results. And some OC star binned form many, many chips.
This thread is only Massman guide how to boot at max multiplier. Doesnt mean stability. My SB boot at 53x to Windows with this settings, but is stable "only" at 4950 Mhz .
You were unlucky with your 2600K. Doing 5GHz stable with good cooling and good mobo is very classic with SB, trust me.

Regarding Vishera, I sincerely hope AMD take the good turn on power consumption and, by the way, better frequencies.