Several 2700+ XP Questions...

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Lyquist

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I have noticed that this CPU idles at around 50 C, and can go up to 62 C when I run Prime95 for awhile. Is this normal? I have the regular AMD supplied HSF and Artic Silver thermal paste. I am also not overclocking. It just seems a little hot to me. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Also, would I see a difference if I upgraded to a 6600GT video card? I am currently running a 9600 Pro. I can play any game out there, but I usually have to lower the resolution to 800x600 for newer games such as Doom3, etc...I'm just wondering if my CPU would be holding me back.

Do you guys think that my 2700 XP would overclock to 3200 speeds if I got 400 DDR?? I currently have 333 DDR. Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks for your time in answering my questions.

Lyquist
 
all righty.. this is a bit of stuff, let's go through it one by one :p

first, the temps. those are high. did you install the heatsink according to the instructions at arctic silver. make sure you don't use too much, it'll bring the temps up some.

for gaming, i think your cpu and gpu are pretty well matched. some things will be gpu limited, while others will be cpu limited. *shrug*

and yeah, your 2700+ should make it to 2.2ghz without much of a problem. don't be surprised if you can actually get a bunch more than this.
 
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