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overclock to beat the bottleneck

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  • 17-01-2009 9:42pm
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    Silenceisbliss
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    righto, I just put in an order of an eVGA GTX260 and 4 more gigs of PC8500 ram to give my PC a bit of an update :D

    so im taking out my old 320mb 8800gts and putting the GTX260 on my 680i mobo (from evga also)

    now, I have a feeling my e6600 at 2.4ghz is a bottleneck.luckily I have had it OCd at 3,4ghz very comfortably forever and its fine. is 3,4 still gonna present a bottle neck? should I push it a bit harder???

    also, at 3,4ghz, is there any point in OCing my GTX260? or will it just do more harm than good?

    thanks for the advice in advance.


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    Silenceisbliss
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    1680x1050 by the way


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    Anti
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    How is yoru cooling? What case and cpu hsf. If it can handle it i'd personally push it as far as you can. I currently have my 2160 at 3.4ghz and this is the bottleneck in my pc. I did have a quad sitting about somewhere but i think the missus binned it :p


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    Silenceisbliss
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    my cooling is pretty good, it's air cooling but its a big sythe ninja and a completely clean airflow going through it. keeps it very cool.

    I can push it to 3,8 I reckon keeping it at around 65-70c orthos stressed.

    Im just wondering will there be a point pushing it that far. I think ill put it to 3.6 and it will sit comfortably. im guessing theres no point in clocking the card then?


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