Help me with my newbie pc questions

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Last night I turned all the fans on high, and I think one of the top ones might be blowing out. If it is, it's a really weak fan. I might go and see about either switching to some other types of fans, or just going liquid cooling all the way through instead of just on the cpu.
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It's better to have about equal in and out, or a bit more air going out. The big side fan doesn't really help with the balance. Just make sure that a couple of those fans are blowing out.
 
I'm trying my hand at overclocking my i7-950. I've got it at 3.8 with a max temp during linx of 75c but it looks like it's in the mid 40s most of the time. Are these fine temps, and can I go higher?
 
Low to mid 70s is a good max temperature to aim for in day to day use. So for Linx you probably have another 5-10 degrees you could go for. The computer shuts itself down when it reaches 100.
 
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Low to mid 70s is a good max temperature to aim for in day to day use. So for Linx you probably have another 5-10 degrees you could go for. The computer shuts itself down when it reaches 100.
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I actually reached 100 with the stock fan and heatsink. And that was while I was playing a game. The next day came the H70 and some new paste. I think I have a good ways to go on the OC,but I'm going to leave it alone for now.

On the engini heaven beanchmark, I went from 52 fps to 60 FPS with the GPU OC and with the CPU oc it added another 2 to make it 62. That's with the default settings. That seems like a decent score for a single GTX 570, but I don't have alot of scores to campare mine to. I've seen a few 580's on another forum doing just a little better then that.
 

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