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Nonetheless, the heatsink taking more heat away from the chipset is going to make all that moving air warmer, which is going to make the CPU warmer, even if it's only by 0.2ºC.
As for the case fans, At 1600rpm, one of those silverstones wil be making something in the region of 70, so what else is exhausting in your case?

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95CFM? Do you have two exhaust fans?

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Thought you guys might like this its supposed to be 5 times better than any silver based thermal compound

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rvinkebob,
It's just what they call "Black Holes" caused by some mismatch between all the variables involved. Binning has a lot to do with it too as all processors, memory, motherboards, power supplies and other components don't always mix exactly the same or perform the same either. it's all a matter of tolerances. When you buy memory, say DDR2/800 cas4 that runs at timings of 4-4-4-12. All that means is that it's been certified and tested to run those settings at stock speeds, nothing more! Because of the differences in binning, you may get memory that runs fine stock, but won't OC worth a flip, while you also may get some that OC's real well. This has nothing to do with the quality of it either. That's why you should always buy matched sets, as they have been tested together to match each others performance and you stand a better chance of getting better overclocking memory!

Take my Video Card, an XFX 7600GT. It runs stock at 470MHz core and 1450MHz memory. Mine overclocked to 650/1600 while someone else's may only do 500/1500 max. Mine runs only about 1-2C higher in temperature while the other one running at 500/1500 may run a great deal hotter. It's the luck of the draw!

The same thing goes for motherboards. OCing stresses components! Capacitors break down and leak over time. Eventually anyone running a max OC will have to back it down a bit as these components slowly break down. The motherboards with "Solid State" ceramic capacitors should last a good bit longer as they don't absorb moisture which hastens breakdown, because they are sealed, so little or no moisture gets in them. I used to have to go out to NASA when I worked in Florida, once a month to rebuild all their dental drills. They were using them to grind resistors to get them to the spec NASA demanded. As you remove material, the resistance changes. Normal resistors have a tolerance of +- 10%. Higher quality ones are +- 5%. Its not to hard to figure that there can be a 10% difference between 2 of the same resistors and still be within spec! NASA was looking for +- 1%! See what I mean?

Hope that answers your question!

Clock On,
theone :>}

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So you're also saying that OC stresses everything instead of just the CPU and RAM. Correct anything cause I'm new to "software to hardware" modification.

At least the hardware that it attaches to, directly or indirectly. The motherboard is a very important part of the equation as how well things work depends on the boards overall stability. As far as the PS goes, C2Ds seem to be more fussy than other CPUs in terms of power. If your power supply isn't up to snap, that can ruin what would ordinarily be a good overclock! Same way with the video card. Like I said, some will overclock good and some will not. Same model card but different capabilities. It's always a matter of the marriage between the components and the ability of said components. One will affect the other.

P.S. If I bought a new CPU for my Socket 754 (AMD Athlon 64 3700+) would this whole stress thing be gone along with the errors?

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the 7600gt at stock is 560mhz core and 1400mhz mem, even tho some use samsung ram chips that are rated at 1600mhz.

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