he probably has the stock intel cooler. early-binned conroes, liked 2.7-2.8 with low volts and they wanted an unreasonable kick to get to the higher freqs. this is just my experience with a couple of B2s from winter 2006. realistically he only needs 2.5 or so. he needs to decide where the system is too slow, and if it's only warhammer, then the CPU is not at all to blame.