Gaming Rigs

[ZERO]

I think that focusing more airflow toward the ram would increase performance b/c they have limited cooling. That would do more than adding an extra intake. Remember that you want to take out more than you put in and that at minimum you should take in as much as you put out. If you were to spend any actual money though I would upgrade you cpu heat sink. Also if you wanted to really OC your gpu I would recommend upgrading all your fans to higher output ones first. My setup has a 22% gpu OC and a 17% memory OC all with stock heatsink and only air cooling on it.

[Satansof2]

man my case is a old one, it looks terrible lol, but my specs on it is:


CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
RAM: Kingston DDR 800 2048.6 Mb
V/Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
DX Ver: 9.0c
Mainboard: M61SME-S2 Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
O/S: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3.0
HDD: 426 GB / 848 GB (49.7% Free)

[Steamer]

From my understanding of air flow (could be wrong), stacking another in front I would still be taking out more air but providing a bit more flow to the ram/chipset from the clip on fan.

Also the fans I have in my case are Antec Tri-Cool's (top compartment running all full powered, Lower compartment fans at medium) and the front intake is a high adjustable rpm rosewill. I was gonna get a reaper but the prices are pretty high. Here is a pic of the gpu clock (stable) before I fixed the cooling.

The specs from Antec on fans are.
RPM 1200 1600 2000
CFM 39 56 79
dBA 25 28 30

Rosewill Front Adjustable Intake.
Rosewill RFX120
43.5 to 87.5CFM at 1200-2200RPM

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From what I have read around, the 8800 GTS doesn't have that great of a memory overclock potential, but the shader and core can go pretty far. Something like a 27% max on core, and around the same on the shader.