Is my cooling enough to overclock?

[L33s2good]

My system is :



Case
ANTEC NINE HUNDRED TWO - UK, The Ultimate Gaming Case, Evolved

Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X6 1090T (3.20GHz/9MB CACHE/AM3/) - BLACK EDITION

Motherboard
ASUS® CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, R.O GAMERS

Memory (RAM)
4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 2GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD 6850 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 3 Capable

Change to: 1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DirectX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

3rd Graphics Card
NONE

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)

Change to: 1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

RAID
NONE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W TX SERIES (TX650) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU (£76)

Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)

Sound Card
Sound Blaster® Audigy™ SE (£19)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT




And my question is if i overclock with my CROSSHAIR IV FORMULA motherboard by how much could i do so? and would it be safe with my powersupply and cpu cooling i did pay extra for my cpu cooler but wondered if its enough, any tips would be great thank you


lee

 

[PCS]

It can be overclocked, but keep an eye on the temperatures as the CPU cooler is not recommended for serious overclocking. You may also wish to invest in some better CPU paste to ensure the contact is kept as good as possible.

 

[BAD SANTA]

I don't know much about AMD mate so I might not be too much help but one thing I do know is that a lot of it will depend on ambient room temperature if it's in a warm room then you will never get great temps with whatever you use. I would have thought you could go to 4ghz with that case and cooling though, Although you won't get the ram to go at full speed. You could do 3.8 easy and your ram would be at recommended speed as well, also if you select the PCS overclock option they will do it for you for like £10 with better thermal paste.
Hope this helps.

 

[BAD SANTA]

Pcs you beat me to it lol.