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Back in early October, I was considering some potential upgrades to my PC. Based on the suggestions on my forum post, I've decided to upgrade from my 6870 to an Nvidia GTX 970 or, If possible, the newly announced 8GB version of the 970.

Here is a link to the old forum post which has my specs as well:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2320546/upgrade-current-rig-build-question.html#xtor=EPR-8809

The people who replied made it sound like my current rig was capable of being overclocked, but I am worried that my current cooling solution would not be able to properly cool a more powerful graphics card and an OC'ed CPU.

My current cooling:

CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
Case Fans- 2 x 120mm fans

NOTE:

  • My case is liquid cooling capable, but I'm not too familiar with liquid cooling.
    I've added 8GB of RAM, making a total of 16GB
Cost Factors:

  • I'm in college, so money's sort of tight (By sort of tight, I mean that I also have a job)
    I'm really interested in buying a new KB, Monitor, and Mousepad which will run me around $600 ish
Going off all of this information, is my current rig capable of handling the OC?

Any help is much appreciated. ;)

Regards,

Ethan
 
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jaimelmiel
I must say you have a great case. That is because I have the same case and it is a good one. It is better suited to 120mm
clc's if you want one. But the hyper 212 is capable. I had my FX 9590 in my Haf 912 for a while it did fine. It has a big case now. You are definitely ready to OC.
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Yes, your current rig can handle the oc. the only concern you should have is if your case has good enough ventilation. The cooling solution on the video card will cool the gpu but that may put a lot of heat from the gpu into the rest of the case. But if your case has good ventilation this will not be a issue. If your case does not have proper ventilation you can either get a new case or take the side panel off.
 
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My case is the Coolermaster HAF 912

Specs:

  • Core- Intel i5 Sandybridge 2500k
    GPU- XFX Double D 6870 Radeon AMD
    Motherboard- BIOSTAR TZ68K+ LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX
    Ram- 4x 4GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (Total of 16GB)
    Case- Coolermaster HAF 912
    PSU- Corsair Enthusiast 850W with Bronze cert.
    HDD- 2 TB Seagate Barracuda Green 5900 RPM
    CPU Cooler- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus
    General Cooling- 2 x 120mm fans
    OS- Windows 7 64 bit

To be frank, I'm not entirely sure that I need OC so that I can run the better graphics card, but if I need to, I want to OC to where my CPU is not creating a bottleneck.
 
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I must say you have a great case. That is because I have the same case and it is a good one. It is better suited to 120mm
clc's if you want one. But the hyper 212 is capable. I had my FX 9590 in my Haf 912 for a while it did fine. It has a big case now. You are definitely ready to OC.
 
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Great help, thanks!
 
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