The max temperatures i have seen are 48*c using everest system stress for 10mins with a stock intel cooler, the last thing i want is for damage to happen while gaming so im asking those experienced if this is safe??
p.s what modern games would this system be capable of playing?
the 9600gt i have is at stock of 650mhz core speed and a memory speed of 1.8ghz, i can run it at 700mhz for the core and 2ghz for the mem before this card gets unstable. i have fitted ram sinks to as the sonic version has as standard.
i answered my own question today, i did a test with farcry 2 and cod world at war and the cpu was unstable due to not enough cpu core voltage but im not risking to up the voltage with a stock intel cooler so i have settled for 2.933ghz perfectly stable untill i get can get adaquet cooling.
farcry 2 was only playable in medium settings at 12x10 but cod waw ran fine at 16x12 maxed.
i always make sure im earthed since i fried a 6600gt a few years back