I am wondering the same thing. I have a Zalman 9500 cpu cooler and my temps run about 40-45c after i have been using it for awhile playing games. Load temps about 35c~ give or take a few. I am 99.99% going for water cooling, but if there are some air cooling solutions I can go with, I might be willing to change my mind
Best air cooling solution is the Thermalight ultra 120 tbh with a nice 120mm fan on it, but even then i think ur temps will bounce between 35-40.
I OC'd mine to 3.2GHZ then to 3.6GHZ then noticed no difference while gaming, so i bumped it back down to 3.2 and kept it there and the temps are like 15-20 idle and 35-40 full load on both cores.
I think the temps could be running a little higher because of the GTS SLi I'm running. I've been hearing more and more about that cooler so I think I might check it out. How about the TEC coolers they reviewed on the site also, has anyone had experience with them either??
You getting windows to boot at all omz? u could try slackening ur ram timings and maybe reducing ur mem freq then ull knwo if its the ram thats ur bottleneck
Charn bro, tnx much,it was indeed the RAM timing that restricted my OC to limitation, i kept on maintaining it before at 5-5-5-18 wc perhaps holds my rigs OC capability.now, i made it at last passed the 1ghz OC. http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=abcd0002dl7.jpg