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well for answering the rest of his questions, i have an open case, with just stock fan and heatsink. As for what enginurd mentioned i have turned this off, well not exactly turned off but i made the normal operating fan speed at 60% instead of the default 25% and pushed my processors to 2.4ghz...

It wouldnt be longer than 2 months after the build would i be able to grab a monitor. Leaning towards the dell 24inch I also reapplied new thermal paste to my current system and i now get idle tempatures around 40-42C and around 51-56 under load, also overclocked to 2.0ghz I haven't tried to...

c2d temps idle OC'd i've seen sitting idle at 55C >.> This block and stock fan just has to suck horribly lol

err, oh wow, you dont even want to know what my temps are registering lol. 82C idle the block is seated properly, has enough artic thermal, the block itself is clean, and as i mentioned earlier my fan is only running at 1.9k rpm atm. Which is rather sad, and like i mentioned earlier i even...

I was just curious because the PSU said 20+4 while the mobo just said 24. I couldnt tell you what the load temps are i have nothing installed to view them, but I could check. I just know my system shut down from overheating at 2.2ghz and when i stuck my finger on the block I coulda fried an...

Ok well the setup that was suggested to me was this right here $250 - Asus P5Q Pro & Intel C2D E8400 combo deal (free shipping on both) $41 - Xigmatek HDT-S1283 & ACK-I7751 retention bracket (free shipping on both & $10 mail-in rebate on CPU cooler) $55 - G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2 1000 kit (free...

thanks hardware this is just a card that my friend is letting me borrow till i build my own system. Which someone posted on the first page a setup that seems right for me. I wont be keeping this card at all when i build a new system. I was just asking what was better on a GPU faster core speeds...

Oh it wasn't a complaint of how horribly this 9800GT 1GB GDDR is fairing on this system it was just a curious of questions since i do not believe im going to go dual/SLi and just use a single video card. However to answer your questions my 2duo is at stock speeds of 1.8ghz. All my drivers are...

Sorry for this slight bump, but i had another curious question what makes more of a difference in a videocard the clocks speeds or the stream processors? Im leaning towards the GTX 260 obviously, it has outstanding reviews but noticed the core clock is 576MHz with 216 stream processors while...

Yah I did actually reformat after i popped in the 9800GT my friend is letting me borrow and said, "wtf?" Did you see my 3dmark06 score posted above? :P I did reinstall all drivers, updates and the works, the only thing i have not done is messed with bios drivers and the such, which may be...

Ok awesome, thanks for the information. It's actually helped out a lot. I never knew that SLI was pretty much worthless at a lower resolution than what you have told me. So even games that tax video cards with its high settings at a 22inch lcd resolution it still wouldnt make a difference then...

Yes, it will be all im getting with what you just listed and such, and that is a rather great setup. So with a 22inch lcd I wouldnt know the difference with SLI correct? Which means I would have just as equal performance with one of those single cards you listed when playing games such as...

I haven't bought anything yet, nor the cards and i currently use a (dell)19inch lcd 1440x900. I will most likely switch to a 22inch lcd monitor shortly after i upgrade however. ( so please take the 1680x1050 instead of teh 1440x900 lcd as my current resolution) Which would be a dell lcd also, at...

Ok so currently this is what im looking to buy EVGA NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI ATX Intel Motherboard $335.99 2 GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 $189.99 + $189.99 Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz $188.99 Thermaltake W0131RU 850W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified...