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just wanted to say thank you to the people who said to buy the tuniq tower,my temp's with my pro7 was 28-30 idle,with the new cpu cooler its gone down to 20-21 idle,that is a massive leap in temp's and the tuniq was well worth it.
i did have one problem though,ive got a antec p190 case and you would have thought by the size of it that there wouldnt be a problem....well !...my big 200mm fan on the side was the problem,i couldnt shut the case with the 200mm fan on so of it came.
so if someone is thinking of buying a p190 with a tuniq tower then have a think about if you need the big 200mm fan on the side !
 
Good to see a nice improvement there, will you be dabbling into a bit of overclocking now you have some better temps?
 
my pc is running really well for what i want(gaming).
just one silly question ?
why do ppl overclock and reduce the life of there chip ?
if for instance i wanted to overclock for conroe 2.4 to 3ghz i could easy do it.
but....wouldnt it better to buy a 3ghz chip and not overclock it and make it last longer with cooler temp's ?
just a question ive been itching to get of my chest and ask some one.
 
Yeah I did the same. I went from the AC7 Pro to the Tuniq on my Q6600 and found it made a huge difference. In my opinion the AC7 Pro is on suitable on quads for stock speeds or light overclocking, anything more and its out of its depth without some massive airflow in the case.

Incidentally I had the same problem with the tuniq on my Antec 900 case. I realised it was just the corner of the 120mm fan hitting the Tuniq so I got a jigsaw and sandpaper and cut the corner off and sanded it down smooth and round. The case side now fits on and the 120mm works beautifully :)
 
my side 200mm fan was just to big for the tuniq.
there isnt anyway i could have cut any of the fan away is it must have been at least 3inch's over my tuniq.
im not that bothered cause of the temp's im getting now so i might just put a 120mm sharkoon fan on the side to keep thing's a little bit cooler.
 
With regards to overclocking, in theory yes you are shortening the life of the CPU by doin it, but reducing it from, say 15 years, to 10 years (hypathetically of course) it would be pretty much irrelevant.

Yes you could buy the high speed chip and run it at stock, but overclocking is there to be able to get to the higher speeds without spending the extra money and as long as you're not totally abusing the CPU (ie running a ridiculous vcore through with insufficient cooling) then it is about getting something for nothing.
 
good answer,most people dont keep there chips that long anyway so i can see the point in overclocking.
is there a program that overclocks for you ?
ive never done it so wouldnt have a clue where to start.
if there is a program that does it for you then i would give it a go now that my temp's are a lot lower.
 
A lot of motherboards do come with some form of overclocking software (Gigabyte has the EasyTune software) however it is far better to do it via the BIOS.

Have a little look through the Overclocking thread and it will have all the details of how to go about doin an overclock, even just a small one to ease you into it.

What motherboard are you running by the way?
 
Intel themselves do some form of overclocking themselves it could be argued as they speed bin all the CPUs and then grade them according to what they can do at various vCore voltages, so if it's good enough for Intel it's good enough for me :D
 
schizo220168 said:
gigabyte ds3 with 4gb of geil ram and a 8800gts card.
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What processor is it?

The DS3 boards are pretty good for overclocking.

As has already been said, Overclocking does theoretically shorten the life of a chip but most CPU's can run at higher levels anyway and are just clocked down to their stock speeds.

AMD's Opteron's a few years back were clocked down a heck of a lot, all you had to do was tell them to run at their normal speed and jobs a good'un. You could save yourself a pretty penny :)

Besides, a normal lifespan of a CPU is so long that shortening slightly via OCing means you'll (realistically) never notice the change.

There is software out there that will help you overclock your processor but they really aren't that reliable (in both stability and actually pushing the GHz that they claim to be doing).

Using your BIOS to overclock is a doddle, 9 times out of 10 it'll work straight away with changing your FSB.

It works on the basis of your core speed in GHz = Front Side Bus (FSB) * CPU Multiplier.

A Q6600 at stock speed runs at 2.4GHz, with a multiplier of 9 and a FSB of 266 (266*9 = 2400 = 2.4GHz)

When I overclocked my Q6600 I simply changed the FSB to 333 and I hit 3GHz (333*9 = 3000 = 3Ghz).

Of course these figures aren't exact... 333*9 = 2997, but you get the point :)

It's all about patience, slowly increase the FSB until you reach a speed your happy at, and a speed that your machine is stable at. Going to high will stop you PC from booting, but this can sometimes be remedied by increasing the voltage your supplying to the CPU.

There's an Overclocking sticky, and a few guides on Google too which are worth a read.

Feel free to ask on here too, that's what we're here for :)
 
By the time the CPU dies from Overclocking it will be 10+ years old and who keeps a cpu for that long?
 
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I find the Gigabyte BIOS extremely user friendly and easy to change the various settings, so as not to be too daunting once you get used to it. I moved from a Socket A motherboard to socket 775 P965 DS3 so the difference in BIOS and overclocking features was considerable, but once you know which settings to look at then you should have no problems.

Once you are clear on what you need to do then the only other advice to give is to take the overclock slowly and change one thing at a time (FSB, Memory Timings etc) so if something does create an error, then you know what thing to look at.
 
Life span of CPU, 20 years.

Life span of overclocked CPU, 15 years.

I dare you to still be using this CPU in 10 years :D

Edit: I feel like there should be a "priceless" in here somewhere...
 
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