Quote Originally Posted by sentient_life View Post
I'm running my Q6600 from an Intel OEM motherboard with no options to overclock the CPU or RAM . I installed the x64 version of Windows 7 RC, so I might have received a slight boost, but it's nowhere near being able to bump up the CPU by many hundreds of MHz. Maybe I need to look into investing in the Powerball lottery!
same for me but i have a AMD 64X2 5600+ and OEM-board without any option.
I disabled the most stuff and top says that nearly only rosetta is running. There is no more optimisation for me.

Maybe I should invest in a Phenom || 955BE and a good mainboard and then OC it to 4.5GHz .