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Originally Posted by unregistered
yet you used a ear also, no ?
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Yep - I'd been trying to make
my ears happy - and only later realized that it was interesting data for other folks even though I didn't have real sound measuring gear (yes I have a sound meter - no it doesn't go nearly low enough and no I don't have an anechoic chamber - but I
did do these "tests" late at night in winter with a blanket of snow on the ground, so little background noise).
I would suggest that once you have enough cooling to support whatever kind of overclocking you want (which might be
no overclocking, or even
underclocking - see SPCR), then you've got "enough" c/w and it's time to twiddle some other variables. For me, the next highest one is noise. For someone else it might be "absolute best c/w", cost, mounting issues, etc. ...