My computer sounds a little like an airplane about to take off, especially with 3 case fans, the Buffalo Heatsink/Fan, and the VGA cooler on my HD Radeon 3870. However, without even touching a water cooling block I've managed to reach temperature levels way way below a normal air-cooled machine, go me! For those not into the technicaly side of things, the average air-cooled machine will idle anywhere from 40-50*C. Well... you've seen my numbers in the last post.
I did have to step down my processor from 2.6GHz to 2.5GHz to prevent some in-game crashing. I'd increase the voltage if my Asus board would let me. In the end, she's still powerful enough to play any game on the market. I don't see anything becoming available that wil be able to fully utilize a quad core processor, especially the Core i7. So, with that note, long live the Athlon 64 X2!
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