CPU Overclock

[onca]

@SMGSterlin, AMD CPUs are good overclockers, especially the older models which had a lot of headroom for more gigahertz. Although bear in mind it is an older CPU -- if you do nothing else, I would recommend taking off the cooler and applying fresh thermal grease. Have a search on youtube, there are many good videos showing you how. There are also tons of good OC forums around, just have a bit of a google. (Not being rude, I don't OC at all myself

Edit: Just to add, the old Thuban 6-core was a really good CPU, even compared to today's standards. But if you're serious about overclocking, I would recommend investing $30-40 in an aftermarket cooler... stock coolers (then and now) tend to be the lowest common denominator.

50C after overcloak is Ideal, anything above 53 ( ( Without even having background proccess running ) can lead to severe damages to the cpu in the long run.

Wat???

Max temp for CPU is generally 70+ C, even higher for AMDs which are notorious for running hot. 53C is nothing, in fact it is oddly low for running Prime-95.. either he's running water cooling or he lives in Iceland

My stock un-OC'd Core i7 runs 68-70C while video encoding at 100% usage.