I've heard good things about the new Athlon X2 'Black' chip...?

Question

The nominal clock of 2.6GHz can be reliably oc'd to 3.3Ghz on a stock cooler! The question is-what's the limit? Would better cooling, like some fancy copper rig or water block, allow even higher stable speeds? I remember some guys oc'ing a cpu to some insane speed by cooling it with liquid nitrogen years ago. Is heat dissipation the only limiting factor to clock speed?

Answer 1

Here's a better result on air.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162738
There could be some incremental gains with extreme cooling.