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I must add here that this chip can run very hot.

When I was testing on the 2 stage cascade at 5.7ghz I could bring the cascade to its knees when running wPrime 1024, it was to much load for it.

I think 4.0ghz - 4.2ghz can be had with Air Cooling and a bit higher with WC, but if you really want to hit high benches you will need to go max LN2 temps.

When I used the F1 as a test it took a lot of pours to get down to max temps. Then sitting at -190c and a full pot of LN2 I would start the bench runs and the heat load from that would make the F1 boil over very fast.

So with the F1 you are looking at having to really baby sit it and keep a steady pour of LN2 into the pot while benches run.

The Phantom could handle all this with ease as its a bigger pot so no worry about boil over, plus it has the volume of LN2 that can keep it at a nice steady max LN2 temp without any worries.

I do not know about the Venom as I have not tried one yet. But I love how the Phantom performs at extreme LN2 temps. You can see all my results on the thread I created on that.

But as noted these chips do but out a fair amount of heat at higher OC's, maybe a bit more than a Core I7 setup. But on the flip side a Core I7 cannot handle max LN2 temps and doesnt seem to scale very well when pushing on the cold.

I saw no real differance on my 920 D0 at -130c vs -90c as far as a OC goes.