is better cooling gonna be beneficial to me?

keef · 20 May 2006 at 10:41

currently using the stock heatsink from a 4800x2 i was wandering if upgrading to water, phase or something would help my overclock, there is nothing wrong with the temps and im just wandering if i have reached the max of my cpu. i dunno though cos i am stable @ 3ghz but the minute i try for anymore it wont do it, the tcasemax of my cpu is 59 if that helps anything, i dont wanna upgrade my cpu for a while now, wait for conroe probably, so would water cooling or something help me squeeze a bit more out of my cpu? or would it just be a waste of money?

james.miller · 20 May 2006 at 10:42

waste of money imo. you want get a lot more out of the chip on water or phaze. is 200mhz worth that sort of money?

sablabra · 20 May 2006 at 10:46

keef said:
currently using the stock heatsink from a 4800x2 i was wandering if upgrading to water, phase or something would help my overclock, there is nothing wrong with the temps and im just wandering if i have reached the max of my cpu. i dunno though cos i am stable @ 3ghz but the minute i try for anymore it wont do it, the tcasemax of my cpu is 59 if that helps anything, i dont wanna upgrade my cpu for a while now, wait for conroe probably, so would water cooling or something help me squeeze a bit more out of my cpu? or would it just be a waste of money?

You could propably squeeze some more juice out of it by installing a good watercooling

. Add a block to your gpu as well, and you got yourself a quiet yet very "powerfull" cooling. I won't be back on air for a good while

keef · 20 May 2006 at 10:58

lo! 200mhz NO, that wouldnt be worth it! but if there was a chance of maybe 500mhz then yes that would be worth it! could anyone point me to a link or info on this tcase max temp so i can compare to other cpu with the same rating?

Townlea · 20 May 2006 at 22:31

just wondering... How many volts you pushing through the CPU atm to get 3.0ghz?

keef · 20 May 2006 at 22:35

1.5v i cant seem to be able to upload any screenshots through imageshack,

im sure the cpu has more left in it yet though.

keef · 20 May 2006 at 22:37

just wanderuing what your doin to get 510 out of your gpu :eek:

Townlea · 20 May 2006 at 23:08

keef said:
just wanderuing what your doin to get 510 out of your gpu

Nothing.. Stock cooling

no volt mod or anything

keef · 20 May 2006 at 23:12

sweet! mine wont do much over 490. havent tried again in a while though, darn, you got a good gpu! what voltmods can be done to these cards?