As the topic suggests, I'm wondering if I should have tacked on a CPU Cooler of some sort (preferably not a water cooler though) to my recent purchases. I still have plenty of time, as components won't begin arriving until later this week...
I picked up the E6850, and am tossing it into an Antec P182 case. Actually, the full list of what all I just purchased:
EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
Intel E6850 Dual Core 3.0Ghz
(x2) Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB) [4GB Total]
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
Matrox TripleHead2Go
(x3) Acer AL1917WABD 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 5ms, 700:1, WSXGA+ 1440x900
(x2) Seagate / 320GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300 / OEM / Hard Drive (Planning on RAIDing them)
OCZ / GameXStream / 700-Watt / ATX / 120mm Fan / Power Supply
Lite-On Super-Multi LH20A1H Lightscribe DVD Burner - 20x
Lite-on LH-16D1P-187 / 16x DVD-ROM / 48x CD-ROM /
Antec P182 Case
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD
Would it be wise to invest in an aftermarket cooler now, or wait until such time as I look into overclocking and/or adding a second GTS around Christmas time? I imagine the stock cooler fan should be sufficient... but I'm leary about such assumptions. It's been a long seven years since I plotted out and built my own computer from scratch.
I picked up the E6850, and am tossing it into an Antec P182 case. Actually, the full list of what all I just purchased:
EVGA nForce 680i SLI NVIDIA Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
Intel E6850 Dual Core 3.0Ghz
(x2) Corsair Dual Channel TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Memory (2 x 1024MB) [4GB Total]
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS
Matrox TripleHead2Go
(x3) Acer AL1917WABD 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - 5ms, 700:1, WSXGA+ 1440x900
(x2) Seagate / 320GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300 / OEM / Hard Drive (Planning on RAIDing them)
OCZ / GameXStream / 700-Watt / ATX / 120mm Fan / Power Supply
Lite-On Super-Multi LH20A1H Lightscribe DVD Burner - 20x
Lite-on LH-16D1P-187 / 16x DVD-ROM / 48x CD-ROM /
Antec P182 Case
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD
Would it be wise to invest in an aftermarket cooler now, or wait until such time as I look into overclocking and/or adding a second GTS around Christmas time? I imagine the stock cooler fan should be sufficient... but I'm leary about such assumptions. It's been a long seven years since I plotted out and built my own computer from scratch.