Overclocking newbie...temperatures

[Ben_Nelson]

Hey all,
I'm new to overclocking and am wondering what temperatures thing like my video card, RAM, and motherboard should be at. I know what my cpu should run at, but am not sure about these other things. Also, is there any software/hardware that I can get to monitor the temperatures of my RAM and video card? I have a program the monitors my cpu and motherboard, but not my RAM and video card. Any help would be great.

[Yakbak]

AFAIK, RAM and vid card GPUs do NOT have a built in thermo sensor. You must get an external temperature monitor like a Digidoc 5, and manually attach a sensor to the RAM and GPU. And with that, your sensor thing would probably fit in a drive bay with an LCD to show you those temps of the sensors you attached.

[David]

Video Cards should come with sufficient cooling to allow them to run OK at stock speeds. Rather than fiddle about with sensors and stuff, sticking a slot fan next to it should do OK.

David

[rogerdugans]

Welcome to the Forums!

As far as temp monitoring goes- I don't know of any video or ram temp. monitoring besides external sensors either, but a digidoc has 8 temp sensors, and there are a few others that have them as well.

Ram is usually not closely monitored, although maybe it should be...at least by those of us who overvolt it a lot;)

Video cards are pretty easy to attach a sensor to- decide hpow many temps you want to monitor and buy what you need.

OR if you are really creative, make your own;) (<--way past my expertise, but:D)