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7. November 2007 @ 22:22 |
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Shauntay, if you are getting a core 2 duo overclocking will be a breeze. Just get a good motherboard and you should easily overclock to high levels.
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8. November 2007 @ 02:52 |
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Sorry for the late reply guys, had the dreaded flu!.
Ok first off, I tried all the tweaks you suggested but nothing worked, It still kept going back to stock speed, even after the most firendly of OC's. So I did what NuckNFuts suggested, reset the CMOS. After that I've been able to overclock again!(THANK GOD!).
Anyway, this time I've been taking things one step at a time and trying not to expect to much from the crappy Kingston RAM I got, which is the route of most of my problems in reaching 3.66GHz I recon.
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I'm surprised you didn't burn out the CPU as your CPU won't tolerate that kind of voltage for very long. Maximum safe voltage is about 1.40v.
Does that mean under no circumstances I should go over the 1.40v mark?, I cant really get the overclock I want with those Volts, I'm do ing a test now with orthos:
I'm testing:
CPU FREQ 345GHz
PCI 100
System Memory Multiplyer 2.50
Memory Freq 863
Dram Timings all at stock on Manual
DDR2 +0.1v
PCI +0.1v
PCI EXPRESS 100Mhz
PCI Clock 33.3Mhz
Processor 1.42v
FSB Termination 1.40 (Whats this mean??)
MCH 1.55v
ICH 1.20v
At these settings Orthos has been running for over an hour with no problems, should I be worried about going over 1.4v VCORE?
Ignore sig OC at the bottom.
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8. November 2007 @ 03:13 |
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Originally posted by NuckNFuts:
I know these versions dont give reported mobo volts but it should do 400 @ 1.6v on NB as did the DQ6.
Hi Nuck, what did you mean exactly by 400 @ 1.6 on NB? (NEWBIE HERE!lol)
Best regards,
Sam
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8. November 2007 @ 03:27 |
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sheeny33,
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Does that mean under no circumstances I should go over the 1.40v mark?, I cant really get the overclock I want with those Volts, I'm do ing a test now with orthos:
No, it just means to be cautious and make small changes above 1.40v. keep a close eye on the temps. Usually the setting in the bios will be a little higher than what it actually reads with Everest. My guess is that Everest will show somewhere around 1.39 or so at 1.42 which barring any problems with the temperatures, should be fine.
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FSB Termination 1.40 (Whats this mean??)
FSB Termination voltage, is the termination voltage of the host bus but, more importantly, also the bus supply voltage. Raising this voltage has a tendency of raising the CPU temperature, and it may cause sudden freeze-ups. Theoretically according to Intel, it's supposed to be no higher than 1.29v. Raising this a bit in the Prescot days helped overclocking a bit, but I can't honestly say the same thing for the C2Ds. Remember, with todays processors you are doing a lot more work at a slower CPU speed, while the higher fsb of the overclocked Prescot needed a bit more voltage. With the C2D, it just makes more heat, which probably accounts for the freeze-ups! Remember you are doing more work at much lower speeds than say the 3.0/800 Prescot. At my stock 2.66GHz, one core alone would blow the Prescot away in performance. It would translate out to about 10,000 to 11,000 MIPS, while one core the C2D can do about 12,500 MIPS. This is 3.0GHz vs 2.66. Just like the AMD 64x2's used to do to the Intels. The Penryns will do much better overall!
Clockin On at the Speed of Light,
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8. November 2007 @ 05:02 |
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Well my temperatures are around the 60mark at that OC. How long would you say I should stress test with orthos before I know that its stable?
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8. November 2007 @ 05:35 |
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sheeny33,
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Well my temperatures are around the 60mark at that OC. How long would you say I should stress test with orthos before I know that its stable?
I usually run Orthos for 12 hours. First if you already haven't, I would lower the fsb Termination voltage to about 1.30v. That should lower the CPU temp a little bit! We both have the same speed CPU, but the E6750 runs much cooler than the E6700. While at first glance they both seem almost the same wattage wise, These processors have Extended Halt (C1E) power of 22W for the 6700 and only 8W for the 6750. The 6700 has B2 stepping while the 6750 has G0 stepping!
BTW, did you remove EasyTune? If you didn't you should!
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8. November 2007 @ 06:09 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
sheeny33,
I would lower the fsb Termination voltage to about 1.30v. That should lower the CPU temp a little bit!
BTW, did you remove EasyTune? If you didn't you should!
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Ok, I'm not sure if its my fever or what but I cant find the termination voltage.. Is there another name for it?. Easytune has gone for good!lol
Also, where in Everest can I find the voltage stats etc?
Thanks,
Sam
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8. November 2007 @ 13:25 |
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sheeny33,
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Also, where in Everest can I find the voltage stats etc?
Just open the main Everest screen and click on sensor. BTW notice that there are 2 red x's at the top right. The one on the left closes the window but leaves all the information at the bottom. The one on the right closes the program.
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Ok, I'm not sure if its my fever or what but I cant find the termination voltage..
I have no idea, I just remember it from a couple of years back. I can't find the setting on mine either. Where did you get it's information (1.40v) to begin with?
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8. November 2007 @ 13:28 |
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Hey Brandon been a while!
Bought the P5W to get some use from the E6600 and try and get my head round clocking before the quad.
It will have a silly water set up and all going in silly huge case now too.
What FSB are the 2 mobos good for?
Ive got every waterblock you can for the comando so that will be the easiest to keep cool for a stable high clock 24/7
Going to be using a Folding@home program for final burn in as they are super sensitive to unstable OCing.
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Watercooled Xbox360 too......!
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8. November 2007 @ 19:36 |
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Shauntay, unfortunately I have some bad news
Foxconn: A bit rubbish
Elixir: Absolute *^&@!!&!
no matter what the brand of the other stick is it'll be better than the elixir
the power supply will also be woefully insufficient.
@Theone: My motherboard doesn't support coretemp. And when I say that I mean that opening it instantly hard reboots the PC. Does yours do that?
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8. November 2007 @ 19:41 |
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Sam, mine did that too, and then I upgraded to the latest version. After that it never gave me any problems.
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8. November 2007 @ 19:44 |
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I have no idea, I just remember it from a couple of years back. I can't find the setting on mine either. Where did you get it's information (1.40v) to begin with?
I saw it in the bios settings just under PCI Clock Freq, I swear to god it was there!, I even wrote it down so I could ask you what it was for!!, strange now its gone!.
I was just wondering Russ, do you think I could get my speed upto 3.55Ghz with the memory I've got?. If so, what Volts would you say are reasonable for that sort of OC.
Also I would like to get everyones opinion on whats the best memory to get for overclocking, I want the fastest because I'm running some quite memory hungry programs at the moment (FSX).
Best Regards,
Sam
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8. November 2007 @ 19:46 |
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Abuzar: Ah right thanks, I'll have a look.
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8. November 2007 @ 20:15 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Shauntay, unfortunately I have some bad news
Foxconn: A bit rubbish
Elixir: Absolute *^&@!!&!
no matter what the brand of the other stick is it'll be better than the elixir
the power supply will also be woefully insufficient.
@Theone: My motherboard doesn't support coretemp. And when I say that I mean that opening it instantly hard reboots the PC. Does yours do that?
Sam,mine does that with the newest version of core temp.
Try core temp 0.9.0.91 Core temp
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8. November 2007 @ 20:25 |
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More annoying still, the latest update for HL2 renders it unplayable on ATI cards. How ridiculous a bug is that?
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8. November 2007 @ 21:02 |
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sammorris,
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@Theone: My motherboard doesn't support coretemp. And when I say that I mean that opening it instantly hard reboots the PC. Does yours do that?
Yes, but I wouldn't call it a hard reset in the traditional sense, at least not on mine. There's no bios re-set! It's like you reached over and hit the re-set button. The first time it happened I went straight to the set-up only to discover that nothing had been changed! LOL!!
I haven't tried it with this motherboard yet. Maybe when CoreTemp gets around to updating their software so that it supports my last 2 chipsets, I'll try it again!
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I was just wondering Russ, do you think I could get my speed upto 3.55Ghz with the memory I've got?. If so, what Volts would you say are reasonable for that sort of OC.
Also I would like to get everyones opinion on whats the best memory to get for overclocking, I want the fastest because I'm running some quite memory hungry programs at the moment (FSX).
At 1.42v, you "are" at the limit! I wouldn't recommend anyone run higher. If the heat doesn't get you, the Electro-Migration will!
I like the G.Skill for it's MB/s performance in these GigaByte motherboards, but the Corsair XMS will usually overclock higher at a bit lower MB/s rate
Clockin On at the Speed of Light<
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8. November 2007 @ 21:12 |
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sheeny33,
I was talking bout 400 as mobo FSB and NB P35 chipset @ 1.6v (reported voltage). Most medium grade mobos wont allow fine tuing of the FSBT (termination0, CPU PLL (core clock gen), CPU/DRAM/NB GLT REF, so you are left with using higher vcore and IHC volts to get stable OC.
FSBT and PLL kind of work together to tune higher mobo and CPU FSB overclocks on lower multi, & often with less vcore and moderate core clock spds.
It's hard to get high FSB out of the budget or lesser mobos w/o some volt mods.
TOM, as for your Q6600, the P5W did not offer the quad core GLT REF so hit was more of a trial and error to get them all to OC together. Remember, you'r OC'n 4 cores in sets of 2 so soem mobos only let you REF volt cores 1/3 & 0/2 while some now do all 4 to fine tune the quads> otherwise GTL REF is not so big a deal for the duals as far as I see at nominal OC's. Why? Well, say even 1 core out of 4 is weeker and needs 67x on GTL REF and the rest do fine @ 63x, you have to go w/ the higher 67 for all in the 975/965 and most P35's still. just about the norm now for X34 & most X48.
So lest's say you got a $600+ CPU and go for a decent $200+ mobo. I'd try to vmod the mobo to get more from CPU then just cranking up vcore alone. Cause while FSB @ 1.6v w/ 1.7v FSBT is risky if not kept an eye on, it is easier to get a better and new mobo then have to cross fingers and hope for the same god bastch of CPU as an RMA. As for the mobo, likely gonna get the better new rev anyways. If you even still have it in a year.
Clock On!
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8. November 2007 @ 21:13 |
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That's what I meant as well, it didn't affect the BIOS. On that subject, I love how quickly the P35C-DS3R resets if your overclock doesn't succeed. You don't even have to press the reset button once. It's also interesting to see that it powers everything in the system down and back up if you alter the BIOS settings, perhaps that's how they avoid the hot-boot issue I had with my P5N-E...
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8. November 2007 @ 21:32 |
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sammorris,
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On that subject, I love how quickly the P35C-DS3R resets if your overclock doesn't succeed. You don't even have to press the reset button once.
You just haven't done enough things wrong to it yet! LOL!! I had it going in a power on, power off cycle until I discovered that if I pulled the plug for 5-10 minutes it would boot up at stock settings. No big, now that I know, but I sure did worry the first time it happened! Just one of my "kooky" things I've tried that works! LOL!!
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8. November 2007 @ 21:37 |
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Don't worry me! lol
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8. November 2007 @ 21:50 |
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You just haven't done enough things wrong to it yet! LOL!! I had it going in a power on, power off cycle
This seams to be a Gigabyte BIOS issue. I had that even with the DQ6 and it was fien for the most part and even if prime stable for days on in it would just do it if you had to restart.. S4 was riskyy but S4 "Hibernate" was fien for me even on the DS3R.
Anybody have issue with high end RAM needing 2.4v + to boot, if mobo reset to auto? mine just reset the ratio and FSB so far, haven't lost voltages settings yet.
Just curious!
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ASUS RAMPAGE EXTREME (X48) w/ Q6600 @ 3.81GHz, 422x9 @ DDR1680 6-7-6-20 @ 1.71v
ASUS CROSSHAIR w/ x2 6400+
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8. November 2007 @ 22:17 |
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Whats GTL REF?
On newer mobos can you alter voltages for each core individualy then?
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2x Laing DDC Ultras with custom tops, 2xBlack Ice GT 360mm Rads with 6x Xilence120mm fans, D-tek fuzion CPU block, EK nb/sb/gpu and both sets of mosfets water blocks, 2x 250ml reservoirss, full 1/2" tubing set up.
Watercooled Xbox360 too......!
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This is now getting into the high end tweaking of overclocking. We had little to no control of these tweaks when I 1st started. (the DDR VTT mod was my 1st stab at hardware mods). I am also learning these new tweaks as I go. I'll try to share it as I figure it out myself. Others feel free to correct if need be or add to it.
GTL REF Voltages, these are basically references points for the GTL+ signals (on the bus, CPU ~ Chipset ~ MCH) usually shown as a % (0.63 or 63x or 63%). It's sort of tied in to the CPU & FSB VTT. They scale up or down together like the FSBT ties into the CPU PLL. The help for higher mobo or FSB overclocks if fine tuned.
So for the quads, you still adjust the vcore as usual, but you get to reference the GTL or either each set of 2, or each indevidual cores. This is what is gonna gove an upper hand at getting more overclock out of these Penryns. I found a 10+MHZ easy and I see others reporting 15 ~ 150MHz over with core by core tweaking. It's time consuming but it's fun too. Cause no 1 mobo and CPU combo will behave the same. Those who tuned a Holley Tri-Power on old GM Mucle cars know what I mean. (1967 Corvette 427 w/ triple duce). Now that real American overclocking!
Hope this helps!
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ASUS RAMPAGE EXTREME (X48) w/ Q6600 @ 3.81GHz, 422x9 @ DDR1680 6-7-6-20 @ 1.71v
ASUS CROSSHAIR w/ x2 6400+
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I have some temperature issues which I would like opinions on or maybe solutions to. Also I would be greatful for any feedback on what I could do tweak wise to maybe get a better OC.
First heres my BIOS:
MB INTELLIGENT TWEAKER (M.I.T.)
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Robust Graphics Booster [Auto]
CPU Clock Ratio [10x]
CPU Host Clock Control [Enabled]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) [345]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) [100]
System Memory Multiplyer (SPD) [2.50]
Memory Frequency........................................800....................863
High Speed DRAM DLL Settings [Option 1]
DRAM Timing Selectable (SPD) [Manual]
x CAS Latency.................................................5........................5
x DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay....................5........................5
x DRAM RAS# Precharge ............................5........................5
xPrecharge Delay (tRAS) ............................18........................18
xACT To ACT Delay (tRRD)........................3........................3
xRANK Write to Delay..................................3........................3
xWrite To Precharge Delay...........................6........................6
xRefresh To ACT Delay...............................42........................42
xRead To Precharge Delay............................3........................3
Memory Performance Enhance [Normal]
******* SYSTEM VOLTAGE NOT OPTIMIZED ********
xDDR2 Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
xPCI-E Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
xFSB Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
x(G)MCH Overvoltage Control [+0.1v]
xCPU Voltage Control [1.42500v]
xNormal CPU Vcore 1.32500v
Now, My Temperatures are as follows: (taken from Everest at Idle)
Motherboard 54 °C (129 °F)
CPU 53 °C (127 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 52 °C (126 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 53 °C (127 °F)
Temperatures while orthos is running:
Motherboard 54 °C (129 °F)
CPU 72 °C (162 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 67 °C (153 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 66 °C (151 °F)
Are these temperatures high?,if so why?, Everything seems to be put together correctly, IE. heatsink, thermo paste etc. (I'm not uaing arctic silver though..)
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 MotherBoard (Rev.3.3)/ Bios: Award Software International, Inc. Version:F13 , Core 2 Duo E6700 - 2.66GHz / OCd to 3.33GHz , x2 G.SKILL DDRII800 2GIG Ram Running at 5-5-5-15@400Mhz , nVidia GeForce GTX295 , Creative SoundBlaster X-FI XtremeMusic 7.1 Card , APEVIA Warlock 900W PSU , Cooler Master V8 Heatsink (CUSTOMISED) , Seagate 320GIG 7200RPM SATA-II 16M cache Internal Hard Drive , Maxtor OneTouch4 500GIG External USB Hard Drive , Asus 16x +/- Dual Layer Lightscribe DVD Burner , External LITE-ON DVD Burner , NZXT Sentry LX Fan controller & Heat Sensor , Antec Twelve Hundred Case (CUSTOMISED) , D-Link DSL-2730B Modem - Firmware v1.01 , Logitech x-530 Speaker System , Logitech G15 Keyboard , Acer 24" LCD Monitor , Windows XP Home SP3
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9. November 2007 @ 22:27 |
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sheeny33,
I've found two things that make all the difference in the world to what temperatures you get on any computer. As you know we had similar motherboards with you having the S3 and me having the DS3. When I first did my build with the DS3 my MB temp was 47C at idle and the CPU was in the mid to high 30's. I removed the Northbridge heat sink, cleaned off all the old thermal stuff and re-did it with Arctic Silver 5. This dropped the MB temp to the low 40's. The airflow of my main case fan was only 33 cfm so I bought the first Silverstone, an FM-121. At the 1400 rpm I run it at the cfm is right at 73 cfm on a flow guage. Both temperatures went down a couple of degrees. I purchased an FM-83 80mm fan to replace the CPU air duct, which added another 25.6 cfm @1300 rpm. I also reversed the airflow by making the fan blow air out, instead of in. My reasoning was to not interfere with the airflow through the CPU cooler and to pull heat away from it, and to help pull more air through the static air vent below the CPU to help better cool the video card, which itself has a decent overclock. The result was my CPU temp went down another couple of degrees, but the MB temp stayed the same. I then purchased a Silenx 40mm 6 cfm fan and mounted it on top of the Northbridge heatsink, blowing down away from the CPU cooler. Both my CPU and MB temps went down! The MB dropped to the mid 30's and the CPU to to the high 20's.
With my recent new build, I changed the motherboard and replaced the E4300 with an E6750 and the temperatures are even lower, so I know my theories work! They should be lower because the E6750 doesn't make as much heat in spite of a 300MHz increase in processor speed over the E4300.
These are the temperatures I was getting on 8-11-07 which is about the hottest time of the year, here in So Cal.
My temps are even lower now but I haven't taken a screen shot of them yet.
Room temp is important too! If the room is at 28C then you are going to see at least 30C from the CPU, and a little more from the MB at idle. The E6750 idles right at room temp, while the E4300 was a couple of degrees higher. Your CPU runs hotter to begin with but either you have to cool the case better through the use of higher cfm fans, or lower the OC as it's not going to last at those temps.
A word about "window" cases. Most do not have any static air vents, and the few that do are not to my taste. I wish I could get a window for mine, as I like the look but Cooler Master doesn't seem to make one for it. I feel that the static air vent that's 4.75" x 3.50" on mine means everything to my low temps as it just brings more cool air into the right place without interfering with the CPU or Northbridge airflow. My video card heat never comes near the CPU Cooler or the Northbridge as it's removed from the case directly by my rear case fan, so it has no effect on the overall temps.
Clockin On at the Speed of Light,
theone
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