Seeing those temps is so alien to me.

My stuff idles at like 30C and when I crank up my clocks for gaming I'm suprised if it ever gets above 50C.

I need to OC my cpu more though. My AMD x2 4200+ is at 2.4Ghz IIRC and I'm sure I can get some more out of it. I just don't remember any of it anymore lol, been a while.

Clocking the X1900XTX though is real easy. Open AtiTool, select profile, click load. 700/800 and she'll idle around 36C and load down to about 52C

My Quad core is like an oven and isn't easy to keep cool at anything past 3.5ghz. If I went liquid im sure I could push 3.5ghz-3.8ghz with the Q6600. My temps at idle are about 45c...and on full load around 60c, anything higher and I would start to actually worry. Lone im suprised your temps are as high as they are with the setup you have.

With my system the heatpipe design on my motherboard that ASUS made wasn't good for overclocking so I did a slight mod to the mobo and deleted the heatpipes and replaced them with pure copper heatsinks that have fans on them and it dropped my temps majorly and increased my overclocking potential by around a good 25%.

I'm going to be doing a few mods myself actually.

The voltage regulator on my 1900 actually climes to 105C!!!! That's hot enough to boil water!

And with such a tiny heatsink it's no wonder. I'll be putting a larger heatsink set-up on it, and maybe even a fan.

My GPU draws 69 amps IIRC while she's under load. My only limiting factor is that voltage regulator. I'm worried that I'll fry it if I clock the GPU and higher. So for now, it will stay as is.

Mind you, that was when I was stress-testing the system so ACTUAL temps will never reach that high but still, that's hot.

Also, the Reserator V2 system is very powerful. It's entirely passive, save for the pump. And it's a small and rather quiet pump.

So 50C is quite reasonable for the flow and lack of active cooling.

I've been thinking about getting a water cooling system but I just dont know if I can trust it to cool my Q6600 @ 3.4ghz...I've heard of a couple that can cool dual cores and single cores but the quads produce so much heat it will cost me a fortune to get a Quad liquid cooler.

Do some research on peltier junction cooling.
Not sure if theres any retail kits but DIY folks can do it.
Hint: draw peltier power from separate 12v source.

The problem with peltiers is that you still need to remove that heat.

The one side get's really cold, great of overclocking.

But the OTHER side get's WAY WAY hot. And so you'll need heat sinks and piles of airflow to make sure you don't spike up the ambient temps to the point where everything ELSE overheats.


EDIT: And by seperate 12v source, he means grab an old PSU, a paper clip, and some electrical tape.

I have set my overclock back, just for fear of stability. I cannot set at 3.4ghz and run stable on air, my pc just limits me for some reason, I mean it can run for hours, but it wont be Pure stable like it is at 3ghz. 3ghz is still plenty fast for me and keeps temps reasonable. I'm actually sitting at a lil cooler then your pc lone, except i have the oven in mine lol. The 8800 produces so much heat and so does the quad that I really wish I had a better way to get rid of it. For some reason temps in the 60's just bugs my pc.

I have a Commodore 64.

It runs a little slow, anyone know how I could speed it up a little?

Drop a new PC inside it. I've got a 486 Dx2 floating around the house somewhere, want it?

I've done the OC game before and it always turn into a tiresome battle between stability, heat, and your wallet. I'm just fine with my 4600 x2 running at stock speeds.

BTW, is it just me or is anyone else amazed at how big heatsinks are now? I remember when my Thermalright AX7 on my 1700XP was considered a big, heavy mofo. Now that is almost small compared to OEM coolers. I also remember when heat pipes just began to emerge. They were nowhere near as efficent as they are now.

Dont even mention heat pipes, I hate them, they dont cool anything when it comes to higher end pc parts:(

You could add some ram if you have some space for it and im sure you could do a system Defrag (Get Diskkeeper) and if you want to mess with "msconfig" type that into run and click the start up tab and unc heck things you don't want to start up automatically when you turn your computer on and log in. But don't un check anything you don't know what it is.

I dont think you know what a commodore 64 is. Its one of the oldest personal computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

Oops lol. all I read was the part on it running slow. Totally skipped that part haha

im the only one brave enough to run vista it seems.

I'll probably put it on my next computer build. Have Dual boot with XP and Vista and make this one a linux DEV server.