Heya folks, I'm overclocking my 3700+ at the moment and am a little worried about voltage. I currently have it running at 2750MHz at 250*11 1-1 with the ram. I've checked the ram up to 260MHz at 3-3-2-7 at 2.70v (memtested overnight yay :) ) Tested for a couple of hours and it seems stable for the moment, but to do so I had to raise the cpu voltage to 1.66-1.68v This is the CCBWE stepping eg the faulty toledo (4400+) hence the high volts as it is known for it's relatively poor overclockability. There's a Zalman CNPS9500 LED cooler on it and CPU temp hasn't gone above 51C. At least I don't think so. All programs (including BIOS) report that temp but also report a "System/Pwr Area" temp which is now hitting 66C. Now the fact that it's still stable makes me want to push a bit more, but those volts are starting to look a little high to me, and I'm not sure if the CPU is really at 51 degrees or if the BIOS has it wrong and the CPU is at 66. I'm asking for your thoughts people, push more, keep it as is, back off a little? Cheers!

im runnning it at 2.8Ghz 254MHz * 11 and i had to up the voltage to 1.55V and its running that for a few months now so i think there is nothing wrong idle temp. is 35 and at load 40-45. stock cooling i dont know why my cpu stays that cold because i see everyone else had 50+ i would leave it like that 2750 is enough i think. i wouldnt be even nessesary. ATi Radeon 9600 PRO AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Gigabyte K8NSC-939 1Gb Team Group DDR400 Maxtor 200Gb 450 Watts PSU 4 vents

Hmm I can also run it at 260*10 for 2600 at 1.475v... might back it off to that for day to day use. Cheers for the feedback, anyone else?

Leave it at 2.7ghz to be safe and it should run stable from there on out. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Strange.. i run my 3700+ @ 2,8GHz (255x11) on the stock 1,35v... I've never changed the Vcore, so maybe i can even lower it,, I heard someone took his sandy to 2,9GHz on 1,29v!

I've read with liquid cooling you can reach 3ghz but it isn't stable. It will run simple task fine but complex task that's another story. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

So no one has any ideas about the cpu temp? I'm going to be running at 360*11 for the moment cause of the much lower volts. DFI Lanparty UT NF4 Ultra-D AMD 64 3700+ San Diego 2 GB TEAM Xtreem PC3200 Poseidon 2-3-2-5 Powercolor X1900XTX FSP Blue Storm 500w