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Elder III · Jul 13, 2010, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Hey all, my lovely wife talked me into buying myself a new case (HAF 932 - on the way from the Egg right now

) so that I can put my recently acquired 850 watt PSU and my SpinQ cooler to use.... both have been sitting on my desk since my current case is just plain not big enough for that SpinQ monster.

Anyhow, I plan to OC my CPU (aiming for 3.8ghz, would be happy with 3.6 though) and I was wondering if I ought to OC my GPUs as well?

Asus M47A Plus mobo
AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition @ 3.0ghz stock
Thermaltake SpinQ CPU Cooler
4 GB Patriot DDR2 1066
ATI 4850 512mb (stock/original cooler - bought when they first came out)
Gigabyte 4850 512mb (Zalman heatsink/cooler)

Now my worry in Overclocking the video cards is the reference cooler on the stock 4850 isn't that great..... it's set at 60% manual fanspeed and the Gigabyte 4850 consistently runs @ 15-20C cooler & quieter (I love Zalman). Now the highest temps I hit are usually around 85C or so in Far Cry 2, which is the most graphics intense game I play currently). Do you guys/gals think I should OC the stock ATI card???

*perhaps my new HAF 932 will lower the GPU temps a good 10C or more and this whole thread will be a moot point....

Korlic1115 · Jul 13, 2010, 07:33 PM // 19:33

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Originally Posted by Elder III

Hey all, my lovely wife talked me into buying myself a new case (HAF 932 - on the way from the Egg right now

) so that I can put my recently acquired 850 watt PSU and my SpinQ cooler to use.... both have been sitting on my desk since my current case is just plain not big enough for that SpinQ monster.

Anyhow, I plan to OC my CPU (aiming for 3.8ghz, would be happy with 3.6 though) and I was wondering if I ought to OC my GPUs as well?

Asus M47A Plus mobo
AMD Phenom II 940 Black Edition @ 3.0ghz stock
Thermaltake SpinQ CPU Cooler
4 GB Patriot DDR2 1066
ATI 4850 512mb (stock/original cooler - bought when they first came out)
Gigabyte 4850 512mb (Zalman heatsink/cooler)

Now my worry in Overclocking the video cards is the reference cooler on the stock 4850 isn't that great..... it's set at 60% manual fanspeed and the Gigabyte 4850 consistently runs @ 15-20C cooler & quieter (I love Zalman). Now the highest temps I hit are usually around 85C or so in Far Cry 2, which is the most graphics intense game I play currently). Do you guys/gals think I should OC the stock ATI card???

*perhaps my new HAF 932 will lower the GPU temps a good 10C or more and this whole thread will be a moot point....

Well your not going to see a 10*C drop unless your ambient somehow plumets. Anyway, yes you can OC with stock coolers, are you going to get a extremely high OC? Of course not, but if your in the mind set that anything is better than nothing you can push them a little.