Recent content by Sirelothar

This won't be a lot of help I'm sure, but for what it's worth my new Opteron 170 with stock cooling OC'd to 3Ghz gets a load temperature gets around 37c max, rarely up to 40c.

I recently purchased an entirely new system. The specs are.. DFI nF4-DAGF Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard AMD Opteron 170 Denmark 1000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model OSA170DAA6CD Patriot 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel...

I am planning to overclock. I currently have a 450w PSU on order for this system and I do plan to use it for multitasking and such. Encoding and gaming etc. More than likely I will send in the order later today. Thank you for the input :)

Right now I have a 3Ghz intel processor with 1024 DDR SDRAM and a vanilla GeForce 6800. I was wondering if the system following would provide me enough reason to upgrade? If not, what would make it better and not make the overall system cost more than $950? *The system here amounts up to around...