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He was explaining that, if you wanted to overclock, it would be recommended to get an aftermarket cooler. Which is the HR-03, he was referring to. This wouldn't be necessary though, if the temperatures are not too hot.
 
no to which part, the will i mess up hardware part or no to i wont be able to get much higher speed?

u say if i have evga, but i thought evga wer e the one overclocked and the non-overclocked ones came from nvidia itself?

so whatr u are saying is ovreclocking is safe?

sorry i was a little unclear. no, there is an extremely low chance of you messing something up permanently. evga sells both OC'ed and non OC'ed cards. i got mine from evga at stock speeds (575/900) and OC'ed it to 620/980. My card did get messed up once, but that was before I tried to overclock it so it was just defective. I RMA'ed it with no hassle and now I have my nicely overclocked one =)
 
He was explaining that, if you wanted to overclock, it would be recommended to get an aftermarket cooler. Which is the HR-03, he was referring to. This wouldn't be necessary though, if the temperatures are not too hot.

I think what causes alot of the problems with heat and the 8800 GTX is that the card creates its own little heat pocket underneath it. This was the case with mine and I solved it by taking of the pci expansion slot covers off and zip-tying an 82mm exhaust fan to the opening. This dropped my temps by 10C load and ~15C idle.
 
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 Socket 775 Motherboard #27305 £ 87.50 £ 87.50
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz (775) #26581 £ 134.95 £ 134.95
Xilence 600W Gaming Edition PSU #27930 £ 39.95 £ 39.95
320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 16MB #23684 £ 43.55 £ 43.55
Akasa Silent Paxpower Fan 8cm #15775 £ 2.90 £ 5.80
Hyundai Premium Blue-H 22" Widescreen #27710 £ 132.95 £ 132.95
LiteOn DVD±R/RW/RAM 20x SATA #28001 £ 16.95 £ 16.95
Apollo Advance Custom Gamer-Blue #25593 £ 45.95 £ 45.95
USB2.0 4 Port PCI Controller Card #7879 £ 3.95 £ 3.95
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768Mb PCI-E Retail #27201 £ 275.55 £ 275.55
Patriot 2GB PC2-6400 C4 Extreme Performance (2x1GB) #26802 £ 54.95 £ 54.95

Cart Total £ 842.05
VAT £ 147.36
Total £ 989.41
what is differnece between the 'retail' geforce and 'oem'? btw, whats the difference between a more expensive evga gefore 8800gtx and the nvidia one shown herE?
 
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