Posted by thxluhsen on May 16, 2008, 6:32 am
  My system is:
EVGA 780i 3x sli PCI-E2.0 motherboard
4gb DDR2 memory
Intel Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz (Over clocked from 1066 to 1333 FSB)
EVGA 9800 GX2
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty Extreme Gamer
Zalman water cooling tower (forgot model number) for the CPU
Vista Ultimate @ 64-bit

....
I have never over clocked a GPU in my entire life. I unscrewed all the
screws,
but could not get inside the GPU.
I's it possible to lessen the heat from these things? (for over
clocking purposes)


Posted by Ed Medlin on May 16, 2008, 9:30 am
 

I wouldn't bother overclocking the GX2 for what little performance gain you
would get. I have a couple of 8800 GTX Superclocked EVGA cards in SLI and I
find very little gain and sometimes even loosing some points in benchmarks
like 3DMark06. Nvidia has really stepped up their cooling solutions and even
though I do watercool my Q6600 I don't even bother with the GPUs since they
do a very good job and are virtually silent.

Ed



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