Re: water cooling??

"Dumbo" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a RoG Striker Extreme and a pre-owned Q6600. The previous owner
>assured me he had run it on air-cooling at 3.5GHz on a P5K mobo. Thinking
>that this assured me of a good overclock I built the system with an AC
>Freezer7 Pro but it wont overclock past 2.7GHz easy and 2.8GHz unstably.
>I've tried everything but it will post but not boot even with all the set
>optimally.
> Would water-cooling be any help or a complete waste of time. I just
> wanted 3GHz and spent the money to achieve it.
>
> Robin

Inability to boot with given settings is unlikely to be a heat issue. IMO,
water cooling in your situation is throwing good money after bad.
There are no guarantees in overclocking. Just because the seller of your
used CPU claimed 3.5 GHz on air doesn't mean you will achieve the same, even
if you had the exact same hardware as the seller, which you don't.

If you wanted 3 GHZ guaranteed, you should have purchased a 3 GHz CPU.
If you want help with overclocking in a forum such as this one, you need to
post complete details of all your hardware and all BIOS settings that are
not default.