Hello all. I recently made a post in the graphics card section about this and have pretty much gotten awesome feedback.
My Core specs are XP SP3 (home edition)
2gigs of 333MHz dual channel ram.
Brand Spankin new (GTX 260 /218 core)
Replaced my old Radeon X1950xtx card.
Core 2 duo E6600 2.4Ghz speed.
Now I posted in the gpu area because I play MW 2, and Starcraft 2 beta. And with my Old Radeon X1950xtx 512mb I could achieve a solid non fluctuating 45fps on medium settings at 1680 resolution. (native res for my 20 inch monitor)
Now when I put in the GTX 260, my fps started flopping around all crazy like, from a mediocre 30ish sometimes down to even 10 or 11 fps. Terrible.
Now I have since come to the conclusion that my dual core E6600 is running WAY TO HOT at idle, not to mention load. From when I boot my pc on my PC temps are 39C and 41C, and in a matter of 40 minutes my temperatures will surpass 60c,70c,80c. This is not very good. So I just recently bought new thermal paste off newegg, and a really nice heatsink. (I had stock before).
These new items will arrive shortly. As I am writing this my temps are 71C, and 70C and climbing so I am going to shut off my pc after this post for atleast 5 hours or so. I don't know how long my CPU has been running this hot because I have owned it since 2006. So who knows how long. I just recently checked temps like last week and found this out.
So the question is, after I reseat the new heatsink with new thermal paste and monitor temps, should my FPS increase? I think they should increase "if" the computer had been throttling because of temperatures. Or my FPS might not change at all Until I Overclock this CPU.
If I do OC this CPU to a 3.0Ghz, will I erase the bottle neck and get the full beastly performance boost that this GTX 260 offers? Any help and advice is appreciated, I will check on this post later tonight. Thank you all!
My Core specs are XP SP3 (home edition)
2gigs of 333MHz dual channel ram.
Brand Spankin new (GTX 260 /218 core)
Replaced my old Radeon X1950xtx card.
Core 2 duo E6600 2.4Ghz speed.
Now I posted in the gpu area because I play MW 2, and Starcraft 2 beta. And with my Old Radeon X1950xtx 512mb I could achieve a solid non fluctuating 45fps on medium settings at 1680 resolution. (native res for my 20 inch monitor)
Now when I put in the GTX 260, my fps started flopping around all crazy like, from a mediocre 30ish sometimes down to even 10 or 11 fps. Terrible.
Now I have since come to the conclusion that my dual core E6600 is running WAY TO HOT at idle, not to mention load. From when I boot my pc on my PC temps are 39C and 41C, and in a matter of 40 minutes my temperatures will surpass 60c,70c,80c. This is not very good. So I just recently bought new thermal paste off newegg, and a really nice heatsink. (I had stock before).
These new items will arrive shortly. As I am writing this my temps are 71C, and 70C and climbing so I am going to shut off my pc after this post for atleast 5 hours or so. I don't know how long my CPU has been running this hot because I have owned it since 2006. So who knows how long. I just recently checked temps like last week and found this out.
So the question is, after I reseat the new heatsink with new thermal paste and monitor temps, should my FPS increase? I think they should increase "if" the computer had been throttling because of temperatures. Or my FPS might not change at all Until I Overclock this CPU.
If I do OC this CPU to a 3.0Ghz, will I erase the bottle neck and get the full beastly performance boost that this GTX 260 offers? Any help and advice is appreciated, I will check on this post later tonight. Thank you all!
