Originally posted by foggy45
yes you can run 8Gb now and yes you have a decent setup to start overclocking. the processor will do it, however in the end it will come down to how well the MB plays along. we did some testing last night with your processor and we got it to 3.4GHz before it shut down. 3.3 had higher temps then we wanted so we left it at 3.2 to burn in for a while to test stability. with some tweeking of the Vcore settings and memory timings we might be able to go higher. its a little more difficult relying on air cooling though, but its cheeper to play around with. using a water set up with a refrigerated resivore would be the best for the money (short of phase-change, and dry ice setups) BTW grab the latest issue of MaximumPC and check out the article on OC'ing your 8800GT