To be honest, I'm not quite sure how to get rid of the noise. I have a P180B case with 2 *120 fans for exhaust and 120mm fan intake which is blowing onto my hot ATI X1900XT and SB of my mobo. As for as overclocks go, you might want to invest in an aftermarket cooler. I must admit though, your CPU temp @ load is quite impressive seeing as mine on stock was going well over 60C. With the E6600, I've been able to push it up to 3.4 GHz (can't quite reach 3.6 though
). But at 333 * 9 = 2.99GHz, I'm satisfied. Honestly, I wish I had a X6800 just so I could compare the performance of both chips. However, I'm curious as how it would perform memory wise considering that with my CPU overclocked, I can run a 1:1 ratio and the RAM would be 67 MHz faster if I left the memory speed on a 1:1 ratio with an X6800.
Overall, there is no difference in the conroes other than multipliers. I just wish they would perform as the ES did in THG. Also, I wish they would redo the article and use TAT or CoreTemp instead of ASUS Probe seeing that it is very inaccurate!