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what should i do about cooling my computer? my machine. intel core 2 quad q6600 cpu XFX GeForce 8500 GT gpu EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR nForce 680i motherboard 2 sticks of 1 gb ddr2-533 memory Antec TruePower TRIO 650 650W Power Supply i have a 120 mm case fan that came with a insignia d400a i plan on mildly overclocking my setup, would stock cooling be enough? what cooling should i get? i appreciate links. i plan to oc my cpu to 2.6 to 2.8. what specific case, cpu, and chipset fans should i look into? again, links are appreciated.

dze replied: "stock would be enough probably if ur ambient was below 80F ... but if it was me i would have about 4 120mm fans huffing in the case ..."

jonathan95123 replied: "well for a any overclocking, i defently would not use stock cooling.. i have nv overclocked but i read alot about it.. you could use water cooling but i wouldnt use that, and phase cooling is too expensive... i would trust a zalman brand air cooler.. they usualy get good reviews and most pc magazine companies put them as best ____... so hope that helps"

stanli121 replied: "For oc'ing your rig, you are going to definitely need an upgraded cpu heatsink because the stock one will not cool it enough. get one with mostly copper parts. about the case fans, get as many as it will hold and, if you are still a little worried, you can get PCI slot fans to cool the graphics card or as an exhaust fan to move out hot air. Make sure some fans are exhaust though. Do the front ones intake and rear exhaust and never put an intake above an exhaust as you will just be sucking in hot air. And, a little pricey but great, liquid cooling if you still fell thats not enough."

Travis replied: "Take the case cover off and blow the dust out."

Heinz M replied: "Of primary importance is to have the best cooling compound between the CPU and the heat sink. ~ I have found that Arctic Silver 2 (and up) lowers the CPU temp by 10C (18F) under white silicon compound. If you have fan cutout on your case that are unused, get additional fans into those. I have found that having one fan blow into the case right above the CPU fan can really lower the CPU temp too. Best prices on peripherals (fans, cooling compound etc.)"

kathy_smca replied: "I use a 6 inch exterior fan to augment the internal fans. I also replaced my power source with a larger one when I upgraded my audio card. The fan and computer ore on the same power strip which I turn off when I walk away from my graphics computer."

ZJ replied: "how do define mildly? if its like a 5-7% OC, stock cooling should be enough provided your casing's airflow is good. i run on a core2 e6600 and sometimes i clock it to 5-10% of its speed n run games, and stock cooling serves me just fine. temp range is ard 5degrees more than when its unclocked. you can check out sites like newegg and tomshardware for some info on the cooler's HSF that might interest you. do also check out the user reviews and comments on the individual products on the newegg site, sometimes the review give you a good idea on what you're gonna purchase in my opinion.. brands like zalman, zerotherm are pretty good.."

Lindsay G replied: "To keep your pc cool. You want it in a spot where it's very open (lot's of breathing room). You'll want to use that air duster stuff on it, every so often."

pc spec: any advice, pease? what are your views on the spec below for educational and uploading videos and pictures? FoxConn N570SM2AA - Socket AM2 AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 1GB DDR533 PC4200 DDR2 SEAGATE Barracuda Hard Disk Drive 500GB NEC AD 5170A - Disk drive - DVDRW (R DL) Antec TruePower Trio 650 LiteON 16x Lightscribe Saw bare drive black + SW Sweex 4 port USB 2.0 & 2 port Firewire PCI card Kworld Dual TV Tuner Digital and Analogue PCI Card Inno3D GeForce 8800GTS 320Mb Graphics card Windows XP thanks

james B replied: "looks ok to me if money is no object and gaming is your aim."

seatech1 replied: "It's fine, but I would recommend increasing the processor to at least 4600+ and the RAM to 2 GB. Other than that, it's fine. Why not Vista 64? If you're going to the trouble of using a 64 bit dual processor, why not use it?"

ronald8826 replied: "all looks fine, maybe a bit more memory would be even better and faster though."

Spsk27 replied: "Perfect in my opinion, maybe even more than you need but it meet all your need without any sweat. This will also last you a really long time."

Tofu replied: "All look ok, except for the TV Card, avoid Kworld, their software sucks. If you want a system to watch TV/record , I would advice MediaCenter 2005 and a Hauppauage NoveT500, you will have a very stable OS/TV with dual tuner facility."

acklan replied: "Looks good but I would double up on the RAM, 2gb instead of 1gb. Also I would have a primary drive, of about 120gb, for XP and my programs and a second drive, 500mb+, just for my data, mp3, video. I would also have a dedicated 40gb to 60gb drive to hold m the video I waas actively editting so as not to fragment my primary drive. Just a thought"

aaaaaaa replied: "That will be more than suffiecnt"

z8rr8 replied: "That is more than what you would need for JUST uploading video and pictures. Its a nice system that will last you probably 5 years without upgrading. BUT I do not like the brand of motherboard, FoxConn is a cheaply made motherboard and does not last long. But hopefully you will have better luck with them. The only snag with this system is....... if your really hardcore with uploading video, at really high resolution, you would probably have to upgrade your video card and memory. But thats only for pretty much movie quality uploading"

phlip replied: "up your processor to atleast 5200+ as my other has the 4800+ X2 and it is slow compared to my 5200+ and yeah another gb ram would be great with the difference being a couple of pounds between memory i would also make it a faster ram 1GB DDR2 667 PC5400."

snowchickmn replied: "looks fine to me."

melvin b replied: "Stick another gig of memory in there, job done!"

Rate my system!!!? This is my first build ever....what do you guys think of my system? is it any good? crummy? amazing? what could i improve on? what do i have that's good? all input is appreciated --- see specifications below -Shawnj0 System: My System Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86 @ 3.19 Ghz (455*7) CPU Asus P5K Motherboard 4 GB Patriot Extreme PC2-6400 Memory @ 4-4-4-12 2t for 910 Mhz Palit Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 150 GB WD Raptor 10,000 rpm Sata 500 GB Barracuda 7200.11 rpm Sata 160 GB Seagate IDE HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card Antec Truepower Trio 650 W Power Supply Antec Nine Hundred Case Scythe Infinity CPU Heat Sink + Fan Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit

Jason replied: "Wow looks great. This must have cost you a pretty penny. Very impressive this will be good for a long time and is a superb gaming computer. I recently built my first computer too and it is no where near this high of quality."

What do you guys think? System: My System Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86 @ 3.19 Ghz (455*7) CPU Asus P5K Motherboard 4 GB Patriot Extreme PC2-6400 Memory @ 4-4-4-12 2t for 910 Mhz Palit Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 150 GB WD Raptor 10,000 rpm Sata 500 GB Barracuda 7200.11 rpm Sata 160 GB Seagate IDE HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card Antec Truepower Trio 650 W Power Supply Antec Nine Hundred Case Scythe Infinity CPU Heat Sink + Fan Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit all input is appreciated. FYI: it's also a 5.7 / 5.9 in the windows experience index. Yeah the seagate 150GB HDD was a carry over from my last machine. I chose the E6320 because it was cheap and I could overlcock it to the speed of an E6850 and then some. So i didn't think spending that much would be necessary. In addition I would've gotten 64 bit vista (i do have the media centre remote btw) however, i was told that 64 bit vista has quite a bit of issues for gaming and other such issues around drivers and such. In regard to the p5k not supporting crossfire, it has two PCI-E slots for crossfire, so in the future I could if i wanted to. But I wouldn't. I would just get a 780i board and do SLI only because I can't stand AMD/ATI

paul replied: "it sounds pretty good.... but you might want more than 512MB memory.... especially for all of that"

dr. mysterio replied: "if you are building a case to last, i would get the e6750 for like 189 at newegg and a 800+ psu. but most of it looks pretty fine. (to tell you the truth, i'm an amd fan.) oh and get xp pro, much better."

Jason T replied: "I'm sure it would be a decent system with no issues and a fair amount of power. If I were to make any changes myself it would be: 1) Why the 150GB Seagate--carryover from old machine? It doesn't seem to fit the machine. 2) The E6320 seems a little weak compared to all the other parts there. That is fine if you are looking to overclock for a little extra speed but as the other poster mentioned, a little faster chip might be nice. 3) The Geforce 8800GT is a fine video card, but I would probably look at a Radeon 3850 or 3870 instead to save a few dollars and buy a little better CPU. 4) For a few extra dollars (about $30) I'd personally look into a remote control for Vista premium so I could use media center for watching video's 5) PSU should be fine as you can't do SLI (or crossfire) on the motherboard you chose and Antec is a good brand and the case is a good one as well. 6) I don't see a Video card cooler. If you are making a gaming rig I'd look into a cheap watercooler for the CPU and video card. The Scythe looks to be about $40 and newegg.com has a watercooler for about $80 to do both cpu/video card. Just my thoughts though. The build seems fine I'd just do it a bit differently myself."

APPRAISAL: How much is my Computer worth? These are the specs on my computer Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86 @ 3.19 Ghz (455*7) CPU Asus P5K Motherboard 4 GB Patriot Extreme PC2-6400 Memory @ 4-4-4-12 2t for 910 Mhz Palit Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 150 GB WD Raptor 10,000 rpm Sata 500 GB Barracuda 7200.11 rpm Sata 160 GB Seagate IDE HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card Antec Truepower Trio 650 W Power Supply Antec Nine Hundred Case Scythe Infinity CPU Heat Sink + Fan Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit If anyone is interested in buying, i'll take the best offer if it is appraised right. I also have a 22" inch Widescreen Samsung Syncmaster 226 BW Monitor If not, i'd like to see what I could possibly get this for. I put alot of money and hard work into it. Appraise away! Comments, Questions, and Concerns are all appreciated Shawnj0

kolten f replied: "omg like a gillion dollars. but for real around maybe 3 to 4 thou maybe 5"

dannylee00 replied: "If you have to sell it, try ebay - you might get what your asking. You probably could get about $1500 for it. Try this - compare your set up with what you see on cyberpower.com. Build out a system with similar components, take off about 10-15% (used system) and that is your price."

PC specs!!!!!? Are my specs good? What games can it play? GA-M57SLI-S4 ATX motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ CPU BFG Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512 MB 2 GB PC 3200 RAM (you will probably want to upgrade this, it works but there is obviously faster RAM out there now) Raidmax X-1 case Antec Truepower Trio 650-watt ATX power supply 160 MB Seagate 7200 RPM hard drive

Tofu replied: "Its fine for games."

s j replied: "Won't work with that ram. That board runs DDR2 ram and you show PC3200 DDR."

aznboy032393 replied: "ur comp is up-to-date and it can play most games out there at maximum settings (except for Crysis, probably) but your board does not support ddr ram it supports ddr2 ram (but 2gb is good b/c if you have a 32-bit OS, then it can only support up to 4gb, so.....). your graphics card is good, your processor is excellent, your case = awsome, your hard drive is a little too small (i mean 160mb! p.s. i know you really mean 160GB, lol!) u should get another 500GB hard drive to install all the games, media files, etc. your power supply is good. your mobo is good. so yah u have a good comp, but mine is better, lol! no jk man. My Specifications Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz 1333MHz FSB ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP (2x) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768mb 4 GB DDR2 PC6400 800MHz 74GB Western Digital Raptor HD 500GB SATA Seagate 7200rpm HD 24in HD Widescreen Monitor"

What do you guys think of my Computer? Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 1.86 @ 3.19 Ghz (455*7) CPU Asus P5K Motherboard 4 GB Patriot Extreme PC2-6400 Memory @ 4-4-4-12 2t for 910 Mhz Palit Geforce 8800 GT 512 MB DDR3 150 GB WD Raptor 10,000 rpm Sata 500 GB Barracuda 7200.11 rpm Sata 160 GB Seagate IDE HDD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Sound Card Antec Truepower Trio 650 W Power Supply Antec Nine Hundred Case Scythe Infinity CPU Heat Sink + Fan Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit Side notes: It has a windows experience index of 5.7 :D I chose the E6320 because it was cheap and I could overlcock it to the speed of an E6850 and then some. So i didn't think spending that much would be necessary. In addition I would've gotten 64 bit vista (i do have the media centre remote btw) however, i was told that 64 bit vista has quite a bit of issues for gaming and other such issues around drivers and such. In regard to choosing the p5k it has two PCI-E slots for crossfire, so in the future I could do crossfire if i wanted to. But I wouldn't. I would just get a 780i board and do SLI only because I can't stand AMD/ATI Thanks for the comments. I'm definitely a computer lover, and a hard core gamer. :D I will do the quad for my next build :P It was more of a work in progress. I initially had crappy components, kept on saving, then christmas came, etc. I live in canada, so i buy from a place called canadacomputers. if you're in the states, you can use a site called newegg.com they are amazing and have everything really good prices. My build, altogether roughly i think is in the 1200-1500 mark. I could've gotten a quad, or whatever, but i'm saving it for my next build as mentioned before

arledgetd replied: "can i have it =p THANK YOU FOR NOT BUYING DELL!"

Ronic replied: "Lol your computer is a MONSTER!!"

$ptd replied: "nice mate. id of gone for the 6600 quad i reckon but still nice rig."

scottcr2001 replied: "sounds like a good sys."

aviationant314 replied: "I'm not an expert but from what i know I'd say it's sweet!"

potataohead223 replied: "syht yur fcukin lucky"

Giving Hope replied: "holy crap nice computer! too bad my built comp has only 2gb, 250gb hdd, athlon x2 5600, and a crappy geforce 7300 gt."

Darky replied: "Goddamn Im guessing you're either a serious gamer or just really love computers."

Te replied: "Nice. I have the same case. Very good design. Just recently built the comp too. Its a quad 2.4ghz. Less than 2 months ago. Did not OC it yet. No money for a heat sink. How much did yours cost to build? and where did you purchase the parts? Edit: I see. Very nice. Yes Newegg does rule. That is where I bought all the parts to my new computer. Thats where I buy all my stuff lol."

Is this power supply enough? I have this system: Thermaltake Black Armor Jr. case (3 fans, 2 LED) Intel Q9550 Quad @2.83 ghz EVGA 780i SLI, 3pciEX, 6 sata Nvidia 9800GTX 650 WATT ANTEC TRUEPOWER TRIO (1) sata DVDRW (1) 320G 7200rpm HDD I plan on adding another 9800GTX to run SLI, plus another 320G HDD, another DVDRW, and eventually a BLURAY Drive. Will this power supply run all of these devices easily?

Mercuri replied: "You should be ok, especially since it's a Truepower. I'd recommend spending an extra $100 or so now and getting a GeForce 260 GTX though. Much faster than the 9800GTX and the 260 GTX can go Tri-SLI (although you'd almost certainly need more power for Tri-SLI 260 GTXs)"

aquielisunari replied: "I really wouldn't think so when you go SLI. Power Requirements: With a single 9800GTX installed Nvidia recommends a 480 Watt PSU. For SLI operation a 750 Watt PSU is recommended and for 3 way SLI a 1000 watt PSU is recommended. These recommendation's are a tad on the conservative side but Nvidia tends to make these estimates on worse case scenerios and the fact that not all power supplies are created equal. Keep in mind that these are just a guideline and Nvidia keeps an up to date SLI compatible PSU list available at SLIZONE with a quad core, 4 gigs ram, 2 DVD-RWs/Blue-Ray, 2 9800 GTX, a darn good motherboard, 3 SATA 7200 rpm HDD and the peripherals I would go for a 1050 watt SLI Certified Power Supply."

bandage485 replied: "Really the best person to answer that question is yourself. Every device you put in your computer displays the amount of power it uses right on the box. Add them together and you get a good estimate of what your system uses. Be sure not to cut the number too close though, giving a PSU breathing room goes a long way towards its longevity. I'll help you break it down if you dont have the means to get the numbers you need. Look up your quad core online - power use varies a lot with CPU's. We'll say 150 watts PCI-E card - 45-75 watts 7200 rpm SATA drive - 5-20 watts DVD drive - 15-25 watts Case/fans - 3 watts each Motherboard (w/o cpu/ram) 30-40watts Ram - 10watts per 128MB So with what you have in your system right now - thats roughly 400 watts of power used. (You yourself can get a much more exact number though) So another couple drives, another PCIE card, and another HDD will put roughly an extra 115 watts of strain on your PSU. Looking at what you got, i would say 650 would be plenty enough enough. And don't forget, a computer only uses the amount of wattage it needs - buying a 1000 watt PSU wont make the computer run any stronger, but like i said earlier, don't cut it too close or that PSU wont last as long as it could have. Goodluck"

Yggdrasil replied: "If you go SLI, get at least a PCP&C Silencer 750W or 810W. Warning, above 750W, PSUs get noisy. ...and, of course, get 'em at NewEgg."