You definitely have head room on the temps there... temps are a bit high for 2.5 GHz, but they can handle a bit more heat than that :)

If you get your hands on a P45 you should be able to clock the crap outta that chip.

I am a n00b clocker but managed to push my q9300 up to about 535 FSB on air. back when they were new.

( I do not even recall what heatsink I had, but it was in a case kind like that one... hmm irony for you... the case I sold to my boss with a ASUS p5 something board, and it just came back for some janitorial work recently...)

holy god! that's 4ghz!
i am researching it and see what i did wrong cuz i remember my zip tie blue orb? it did a hell lot better than this...
that's like a wtf moment right there......

when i get some more time i'll clean the cpu and the heatsink real well and then try again cuz this temp is just stupid and i even lowered the CPU Core voltage and FSB temp below the rated the temp didn't change at all if not went up...
so.....

i am on the edge of saying hell with it and go with water but don't wanna deal with water just yet...

TBH i rather LN2 anything over water or even dice just cuz :D

i have a temp pole somewhere i monna just stick it in the computer for now just to see the real temp of the heatsink and all that good stuff and go from there i really hope it's reading the wrong temp of it then it's really that hot......

WTF happened to this? Your pix tell a different story than what you said and show you at mid to upper 50's and even 60's. Something is wrong.

Water is a pain in the ass and unless you spend shit loads of money, is not going to give you better than air temps.

Except in the situation where your case flow sucks and the rad is outside the case.

I use water for winter time subzero action that is it :)

sry i ment to say 50s...

but naw like the same heatsink with the 970 it keeps it really cool can't remember the numbers but from what i remembered it was like half of what i got on this

but again i7 is 32nm this is 45nm


i mean i have some simi ok parts for the hardwares but just don't have the time to set it up and maintain it

yep just fixed most the cooling issue...
comes to over heating the heatsink only got 1 120mm fan on it also the back case 120mm fan was on LOW! and when i turned it to high the temp dropped about 3~5C no core went over 60C with few hrs of Cod black ops and some other game open and a 1080p movie going on the other screen
room temp is 73F/23C

did some overclock it dose 460 just fine needing to tweak it tho

what cooler are you using?

Venomous X with a stander silverstone fan
i am trying to find the other thermaltake cooler i had have no idea where it went