Athlon temperature to aim for?

[Patchworkblue]

Howdy all - at the moment, I am more or less satisfied with my CPU temp. My 2500 Barton is showed love by a Thermaltake Volcano 11 Xaser edition, with manual fan control. When I have the fan at max, even at full load, my CPU hovers between 30c and 35c. However, when I have the fan at anything resembling a tolerable noise level, the temperature begins to climb. I am planning on silencing my system, and was wondering about what safe CPU temperature I should try for. I primarily use the system for gaming.
Also, I am thinking about buying that mammoth Zalman heatsink for my 9800 Pro - I have been told that it, without a fan, cools as well or better than the stock ATI gpu fan. Is this true? Thanks for your help!

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[scottchen]

Buy the Arctic Cooling VGA silencer for your video card, it cools much much better. For your athlon try to keep temp under 60C.

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