Core2Duo e8500

[Guest]

What are the chances of oc on stock intel cooler without burning up whole house?

 

Just trying to bring some life to this old machine

 

mobo:Asus p5q pro

8gb ram

[Vendetta]

Heat depends on your voltage..... No one here can tell you how far your chip can go on stock voltage.....

[Aniallation]

Not sure about stock cooler but people are quite able to hit 4GHz on coolers like Hyper 212 Plus

 

However overclocking in general depends on silicon lottery, Core 2 Duo was never intended to be OC'd

[DeViLzzz]

Core 2 Duo was never intended to be OC'd

Where the heck did you see information saying this?  The only reason I bought an E5200/E5300 was the fact that one could get huge overclocks from them.

[Aniallation]

Where the heck did you see information saying this?  The only reason I bought an E5200/E5300 was the fact that one could get huge overclocks from them.

From an "official" standpoint they weren't designed to be overclocked. That's why they were locked... the Extreme Edition chips like the X6800 were the chips that Intel released that were expected to be overclocked from the perspective of someone who would purchase it.