eznark said:
well, I am a half-assed burgeoning PC tinkerer. This is my first build, so I'm hesitant to be too aggressive. I was under the impression that you should start worrying a bit when temps get over much 50?
Yeah even though hardware has a higher heat tolerance than most people give it credit for, the enthusiast types panic when anything hits 50 degrees, which is well below the actual limit past when you should be worrying. It's almost kinda comical, really.
For instance, ram has really high heat tolerance, more than most other parts in your rig, which essentially means ram coolers are almost always useless. But hey, they're out there. :lol
What you're doing is nice and conservative though. If you don't need the horsepower, it's perfectly sensible to hold back on the OC until you get a third-party cooler. Though there's a part of me that's yelling at myself to tell you to leave it at 2.8.
Don't mind me.
edit: yeah, using the right temperature scale helps too. :lol The critical temps are more around 90, ignore what I said before.
, Ill post my 3D mark score in a couple minutes based on only 2GB of ram Vista 64.
