FadingTheory
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Okay, I finally got my computer together (See signature) and started to fiddle with it. I have a few questions and concerns, and I'm hoping someone can help me.
1. Chipset Cooling- My DFI Lanparty UT 250GB can stock with a chip aluminum chipset cooler, which I promptly toor off. In its place, I put a Zalman VGA fan (VGA fans fit perfectly on the Chip) with artic silver 5. Of course, the fan is of the copper type, with a flat copper bottom touching the chip.
My trouble is, is this actually good? The fan is nice, but only a flat surface stands between it and the cip, not a heat sink. Is it worth going out and buying a quality chipset heatsink/fan combo, if all I'm going to do is minor CPU/Graphics card overclocking/overvolting? And, is it better to have a copper heat sink on instead of the simple flat metal and fan, as described above.
2. Overclocking the CPU- I currently have my 2.0 GHz 3000+ AMD 64 clcoked at an easy 2.2 GHz. It is completely stable. Is it worth cranking it up to 2.4 GHz (My absolute top with stock cooling)? Also, it seems that when I even overvolt slightly with the CPU, my system shuts off (when booting windows, not the bios). Is this because of another setting, or is stock simply not good enough (Pleae don't offer solution with buying a new CPU cooler in it. I want to try and get the best out of stock cooling first before I go out and start buying new parts). Also, is it worth ripping out the CPU heat sink and applying Artic Silver, or will it offer meager results not worth the trouble.
3. Overclocking a eVGA nVIDIA 6600GT- This card comes stock with 500/900 MHz speed. I unlocked coolbits and told the card to optimize itself. It goes all the way up to 552 MHz/1.04 GHz. It works perfectly fine, untill you try to boot the computer with this setting. It simply refuses, and I can only boot to safe mode and reset the driver. Is it another setting I have to adjust, or do I have to manually downclock it untill I can boot? Or is it really not worth it?
Thats the big things. I appriciate any help anyone can give. Thank you in advance.
1. Chipset Cooling- My DFI Lanparty UT 250GB can stock with a chip aluminum chipset cooler, which I promptly toor off. In its place, I put a Zalman VGA fan (VGA fans fit perfectly on the Chip) with artic silver 5. Of course, the fan is of the copper type, with a flat copper bottom touching the chip.
My trouble is, is this actually good? The fan is nice, but only a flat surface stands between it and the cip, not a heat sink. Is it worth going out and buying a quality chipset heatsink/fan combo, if all I'm going to do is minor CPU/Graphics card overclocking/overvolting? And, is it better to have a copper heat sink on instead of the simple flat metal and fan, as described above.
2. Overclocking the CPU- I currently have my 2.0 GHz 3000+ AMD 64 clcoked at an easy 2.2 GHz. It is completely stable. Is it worth cranking it up to 2.4 GHz (My absolute top with stock cooling)? Also, it seems that when I even overvolt slightly with the CPU, my system shuts off (when booting windows, not the bios). Is this because of another setting, or is stock simply not good enough (Pleae don't offer solution with buying a new CPU cooler in it. I want to try and get the best out of stock cooling first before I go out and start buying new parts). Also, is it worth ripping out the CPU heat sink and applying Artic Silver, or will it offer meager results not worth the trouble.
3. Overclocking a eVGA nVIDIA 6600GT- This card comes stock with 500/900 MHz speed. I unlocked coolbits and told the card to optimize itself. It goes all the way up to 552 MHz/1.04 GHz. It works perfectly fine, untill you try to boot the computer with this setting. It simply refuses, and I can only boot to safe mode and reset the driver. Is it another setting I have to adjust, or do I have to manually downclock it untill I can boot? Or is it really not worth it?
Thats the big things. I appriciate any help anyone can give. Thank you in advance.