[Banging the head on the desk hard!!!]...Why?...Why?...Why?...
Gameman, I have a question...I've got a PhenomX4 9950 at stock a clock of 2.61GHz, and for CPU cooling I have the Gigabyte ProII (12cm, 5 heat pipes, copper/aluminiun heatsink)...how far should I push?...can I get to 3GHz without burning it?...
And as to the highly debated benchmark above, there is no way you can get 17000 points in vantage having a water-cooled system, a Corei7 965XE, a pair of GTX295 (makes no difference what brand they are) and 6GB of DDR3 1600MHz, all placed on a Gigabyte-patented, "Ultra Durable 3", triple-layer X58 motherboard!!!
I'd expect nothing less than 18500, with the possibility of reaching that ellusive 20000 mark.
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