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I have a 9600 pro and wanting to OC a little to improve performance in CS:S. Do I need an extra fan or new cooling unit? Currently the core is about 458MHz (default is about 350MHz).

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I usually remove all fans from GXF cards... well, I'd say, it depends how hot it gets. As long as you can touch the dissipator without getting burned, I'd say it's OK. Although that limit is really the hard one.

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just reminds me of that image from yesterday ... forget to plug in the pump.

just test that config, if it get's really too hot, you'll get small errors like missing polygons, errors in textures etc. then you know that this isnt healthy for the chip and the ram.

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Running since + or - 10:00AM (now it's 9:20PM)

Air cooling, ASUS A7A266-E, AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.7 GHz)

Please take into consideration the f*cking tropical summer and 37°C+ outside air temperatures (Yeah, I've got air conditioning, but it is not too HOT to turn it on :D).

http://img22.exs.cx/img22/2923/asus2rj.th.png

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dude there is no way you can have it OC that much and not artifact.... did you test the card to make sure it wasn't artifacting... ATI should tell you the temp of the card.. if the temp is above 85C then you need to stop OC

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ya OC runs the life of the chip down ??? i personally would look into water cooling ... maybe simply more fans...

ive already fried 3 cpus :( so it sucks when your chips die on you... i wouldn't really bother OC i dunno...

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There's a passive (fanless) heatpipe cooler that's easily capable of handling a 9800 pro or Geforce FX 5900 Ultra, achieving lower temps than the stock coolers. I guess that if you put this baby on a 9600, you ought to have some headroom for OC'ing... plus you can increase the cooling performance if your case is equipped with case fans.
The cooler's cold "Aerocool VM-101", costs about 20 Euros and you can google for some online reviews. Just another suggestion.

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if you have run thru 3 chips it isn;t cause OC is bad it is cause you are doing it wrong

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naw ive seen tools that over clock core and ram speeds ( etc etc etc ) but i personally have never OC a single chip ... ever im just dumb lol

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The disadvantage is that it may occupy the susequent card slot, w/ that freaky dissipator thingy...