Mode-stirred chambers (MSCs) can be used for radiatedimmunity tests in EMC testing. Advantageous compared toconventional test methods is the high field strength whichcan here be generated with less RF-Power. This point isoften the main argument for pushing the standardization of MSCs as an other EMC testing environment. Especially forsafety-critical electronic equipment like avionic or automotivesystems, immunity tests with field strengths of several100 V/m are necessary. Such high field strengths can onlybe generated with substantial RF power and therefore expensiveamplifiers if the test is performed in an environment withplane waves. Due to resonance effects in mode-stirred chambers,comparable values of the field strength can there be obtainedwith significantly less power. In these chambers thefield strength declines with increasing volume for a constantinput power. As an ideal testing environment a mode-stirredchamber should also work at low frequencies which requiresa large volume, however. Hence there is a contradiction betweengenerating high level field strengths on the one handand obtaining a lowest usable frequency of several 10 MHzon the other. This relativizes the advantage of generatinghigh field strengths with less power if the chamber is supposedto work down to low frequencies.This article deals with the field strengths that can be obtainedin mode-stirred chambers with a certain size. Dataof different mode-stirred chambers are compared. Fromthis a frequency limit can be derived, above which the usea mode-stirred chamber for achieving high field strengthsseems meaningful only.