my new opteron 165 - Page 2

polobunny · June 18th, 2006

Mach 2 GT/Vapochill setup would be a nice start into extreme cooling.

**One4yu2c** · June 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by simple_inhibition

so the CCBWE chips like cold? looks like ill have to start saving some money for one of those extreme cooling setups. what would you guys suggest?

Depending on your goals (hobby vs bang/buck), just make sure you draw the line at some point where the added cooling costs start to outweigh the performance gains, or cost of getting a faster chip to begin with, or the cost of upgrading a different part of your system, etc.

**simple_inhibition** · June 18th, 2006

well im pretty happy with the performance right now so im pretty sure im going to stick with aircooling for now. initially i was considering watercooling if i would have recieved one of those 3ghz monsters. ill probably sit tight with this for now and wait for the DX10 cards to come out. im sure i can still eek out a bit more performance with memory timings and what not too.

Capper · June 19th, 2006

There is always that plateau where you have to add a pretty significant bump in voltage for a minimal gain in your overall O/C, thats really the point where you need to stop, as the trade off are not worth the pressure it puts on your system

polobunny · June 19th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Capper

There is always that plateau where you have to add a pretty significant bump in voltage for a minimal gain in your overall O/C, thats really the point where you need to stop, as the trade off are not worth the pressure it puts on your system

Well said, I wish everyone would understand that. The other day at work one guy was going totally crazy in his thoughts to overclock his Athlon XP 2800+... sigh
He started talking about water cooling and all, then I stopped him and said "Hey you know you'd get better results with a A64 3200+ on air with a new mobo?" but I don't think he really understood that. :x

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simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In front of my pc in Ft Bragg XD Posts: 1,492 Blog Entries: 1	well im pretty happy with the performance right now so im pretty sure im going to stick with aircooling for now. initially i was considering watercooling if i would have recieved one of those 3ghz monsters. ill probably sit tight with this for now and wait for the DX10 cards to come out. im sure i can still eek out a bit more performance with memory timings and what not too.