New System, Beginner, Temp/Mem questions

[JimmyCB]

Hey guys,

I've recently built a new system (my first time ever, w00t!) and it went without a hitch so far (knocks on wood). I'm very happy with it and the job I did for my first time. Specs are

E6600w/ Thermalright Si-128w/ AS5
Evga 680i
Evga 8800GTX
G.skill PC6400 HZ
Pc Power & Cooling Silencer
Stacker 830w/ 6 Scythe S-FLEX 1,600 as intake and two Panaflo fans as exhaust. The noise level is honestly not that loud to me.

Anyway, that's my setup among other stuff like dvd burner/monitor etc. And from the get-go I have planned to overclock this guy to 3.4ghz stable 24/7. That was my goal, but i've ran into a little hitch and decided to stick with 3.2ghz with 1.264 vcore. My idle temps shown are between 23-28c by TAT, core temp is about the same, but actually is sometimes 1-2c lower.

I'm fine with this of course, but when I run Orthos, my temps jump up pretty high for load temps, between 49-54c with 51c avg. When i was at 3.4 overlock with 1.4vcore or below to about vcore3.5 it was about 61c avg which was to high for me. I've had it to 3.6 easily, but my temps nearly reached 70c and I quickly stopped it.

I'm a big n00b at this though, so I won't pretend I know exactly what i'm doing, that's why I came here for a second opinion/advice/anything. I'm honestly fine with 3.2ghz, but do my load temps seem fine? Of course I wouldn't mind to go higher (3.6ghz is nice ).

I also have another question, but I didn't want to make two threads. It's about my ram. It's currently running at 1:1 at 712 (rated 800). Is it best to leave it at 1:1 and at that speed? or should I go to 800 or higher? I'm honestly confused about overlocking ram and not sure what to do, but I heard 1:1 is the best, so I left it at that. The voltage on it is it's recommended at 2.0v.

Any help would be appreciated and sorry for a long post or if I forgot to include anything. I just woke up

 

[orion23]

The ram voltage should be the recommended setting unless you are overclocking the RAM.

Now, Orthos will stress your CPU way too much, in fact, more than anything else can. So don't run Orthos for hours unless you have to show others that your system is orthos stable for 48000000000000000000 hours (there is someone always trying to run the longest orthos test ever) Do these people even get to use their computers?

Your temperatures are just fine when using orthos, if you load a game or do some video editing, you will not get such high readings, try it!

You seem to have a great chip there @ 3.6ghz!