I have an EVGA 8800gt 600/900 that runs at ~57c idle. During load of HL2EP2 or CoD4 the temp goes to ~70c. I was thinking this was hot, but i guess not. Can i OC this card to 650/975 or higher? I know people say that this card can handle 90c with no trouble, but wouldnt a card that on load doing 70c last longer than one at 90c?
Also, how would i oc? I have rivatuner with profiles set up to increase my fan speed when temps get higher. I have it set up for 40% idle, 60% > 70c < 80c, 80% > 80c. But i have yet to even get close to 80c and my highest recorded temp on rivatuner was about 73c during load. So what is a safe OC speed to start at? I dont want UBER increases of my speed, but somthing small that i know wont hurt any of my hardware.
Btw... I have e6850 @ 3.0ghz, 2gig Corsair XMS2 PC6400 5-5-5-18, WD 320gig 7200rpm 16mb HDD.
I was going to turn my timings of my ram to 5-5-5-15 but i dont know if the nVidia ntune is a good way to do that.
I dont want to OC my CPU cuz 3.0ghz dual core runs fine to me. 200-400mhz increase isnt worth it imo.