I feel your pain. I've been trying to push my little Q6600 past the 3.5 barrier. I can get it to 3.6 but it's not very stable. 3.8 will let me boot into the OS and then crash, lol. I think if I had the 780i or at least the non LT version of the 680i motherboard I could probably go all the way to 3.9 but oh well. Other than PCSX2, I don't really need any more horsepower.

But, yeah, a 1.1GHZ overclock is still pretty impressive, I think.

Well i am kinda dissapointed since i aimed at 3,75. ***** happens

well unexpected winter came to my country and temps aof course got lower, my "base" cpu temp in bios is now 38C, and idle is 34 and i could rise it a little bit to 3,56. So in conclusion its still not very good piece for OC but temperature and thermal conducting is holding a little back for sure.

HEllo its me again I am not the type who gives up easy. I have read about GTLref voltage. Currently i have it at 0.63x, does it helps in overclocking e5200?? I have read thats the key in overclocking quads tough.

Er, I've never really messed with this. Can you go into detail about what exactly it is?

Well there are two types of GTL voltages first is CPU one it helps reach very high fsb especially for quad. ITs value is some percantage of vtt voltage. Some bios can have it as a a percantage like mine in some you have to put correct value manualy depending on your vtt. Intel states the safe gaps for it are from 0.55 to 0.72.
NB one helps getting better overclock at all.
As i read usualy the best values are around 0.63 to 0.67 but thats not the rule.

I have only one fo them probably the CPU one, but that didint help me.

I have an HD 4670 and it's works nice with Pcsx2, but buying the 1gb one is just worthless, go for the 512mb one.
Did I wrote that ok? o.o