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Post Date: 2009-11-22
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    Posted: 22 Nov 2009 at 5:16am
Okay, so i recently built my own system and here are most of the specs that I recall right off the top of my head.

Q9550
GTX260 Superclocked Edition
8GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
750W Corsair PSU
XFX780i
Antec 900 2

I wanted to try and overclock this system some. Right now I have like 5 or 6 fans in the case and the CPU runs around 32-42 degrees Celsius when gaming. I have a stock cooling fan on the CPU. What is the temperature where I should start to worry?

Any recommendations on how far to overclock?

P.S.--->First time I am wanting to overclock a system, so really new to this.
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cpu temps need to be under 85c preferably 80c.

thats after running intelburn or running linx like 40 or 50 times.

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Okay, and a good program to monitor temps is? I read some guides and RMClock doesn't want to work on Windows 7 64bit
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you can try HWMonitor and realtemp, go by which ever one shows the higher number.

rmclock has limited ability on vista and win7 64bit.

Edited by DST4ME - 22 Nov 2009 at 9:27am

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What about CoreTemp?

I ran Intel Burn on Stress Level: High
and Times to run: 5

Max temp reached was 75 Celsius. I have the heatsink that came with the processor and I know for a fact that I need to take it off and redo the thermal paste because I know there is too much on there.

Right now at idle the temp is averaging 39 Celsius.
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between hwmonitor and realtemp you are covered.

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