[Pirate]

Hey Abel, I have that same processor at the moment, and whilst the stock 2.5ghz speed isn't anything to shout about it does overclock really well - and easily too. I currently have mine running at 3.0Ghz and completely stable, and If it were fitted with a different cpu cooler 3.5GHz is definately possible.

I see you live in the uk, I bought the base of my system - processor, motherboard and ram from awd-it.com as a bundle, they installed the processor for me and tested everything to make sure there were no problems (which there were, the motherboard was faulty, so they replaced it with a new one) and I received it all in perfect working order - that bundle cost me about