Testing
Test Setup.- Coolercase "Extreme-XS" (431W PSU)
- Duron 700 @ 1,000 1.85v
- Thermaltake Chrome Orb
- Abit KT7 Motherboard
- 2 x 128Mb Crucial PC133 Cas2 Ram
- IBM GXP34 34.2gig 7,200rpm Hard Drive
- Panasonic 8/4/32 CDRW
- Acer 40x CD-Rom
- Ge-Force 2 GTS 32mb AGP
- Soundblaster Live X-Gamer
- Microsoft Optical Explorer Mouse
Considering my room ambient temp was 23c this Coolercase actually managed to get the system temp to 2c below this, which is absolutely amazing considering with just the two standard 80mm fans the case temp was 29c and to follow that, the CPU temp before was 44c and is now a cool 38c this is a massive 6c drop in temp here.
How does this affect Overclockablilty??? After seeing the above results I got all excited and decided to see how far I could push my Ge-Force 2 GTS card (stock cooling) as considering this unit blows air in directly onto the AGP/PCI cards. This card would clock to a maximum of 220mhz core and 366 MHz memory and after tweaking this up and up until I got to the limit, I hit an amazing 235mhz core and 400mhz memory this without any lockups or graphical defects. Here is the 3Dmark 2000 scores....
This compares to these 200mhz core and 333mhz memory 3Dmark scores.
I must say I am extremely impressed by how this cooling system allowed me to push my GF2 that much further and remain stable, who needs ram heat sinks now!!!