cooling + ocing

[20mm]

i've been thinking about ocing my dad's old system for a while...it's an intel 2.56 cpu...i was going to get the tt bigwater but now i'm thinking about going with air cooling...what do you guys think...would i notice in increase in performance if i oc it?

 

[comrad]

well matters. what are the system specs

 

[20mm]

512mb ram pc3200
x800xt agp
msi 845e max

 

[Nubius]

would i notice in increase in performance if i oc it?

Well...technically isn't that the purpose of OC'ing? To get it to the point where you can literally tell 'Wow thats faster' would take a nice OC though from stock speeds....probably upwards of 3GHz or so.....but as far as numbers go you'd see it in benches of course

 

[comrad]

and i would go with air if i were you. watercooling is not for just home use , its for overclockers. You can probably take it to like 3ghz like nubius said. And you WILL notice the speed difference.

 

[20mm]

well isn't that the whole purpose of water cooling? i'm just wondering if i would notice a difference in temps from using a high end cpu fan and hs compared to the low end tt bigwater.


comrad what cpu cooling are you using...i noticed you got your 2.4 up to 3.1...nice one.

 

[GeckoEcho421]

That water cooling system will probobly cost you like $250. For that price you could sell you old cpu and buy a much faster one and it will be perfectly reliable.

 

[20mm]

acctualy that wcing system is only 100 bucks here at my local store.

 

[comrad]

a good cpu fan will probably perform better. I think nubius had that one. im not sure. And i am using stock cooling and i got my 2.6 to 3.1 on sotck voltage, pretty good.

 

[20mm]

dang man...that's pretty damn good...imagine what you could do with a *****in cpu cooler...by the way...are mobo chipset coolers with the money?