The other day I was sitting around with nothing better to do, so I decided to put together a system out of some of the unused parts sitting around the test lab to use as a cruncher for the Seti@home DC project. As it was going together, it occurred to me that for all the overclocking going on in the lab, and all the tinkering I'd done, on literally dozens of machines, I had never once done a full comparison of the overclocking potential of a completely stock cooling system versus the premium cooling that equipped most of the lab machines. As a matter of fact, I couldn't recall ever doing ANY overclocking of any of the systems with the stock cooling in place. Since I had all the components right in front me, I decided to do just such a comparison.