Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

[esswok �]

Hi all
I am interested in the software that you guys use to monitor the system.

I have a liquid cool Q9450 on a P5n-d with 2 9800gtx and 8 gig ddr2.

I just put in the 2nd 9800gtx last night

I just flew a Tom Clancys H.A.W.K. mission it worked well.

Iam just wondering if I could cook anything, I can not aford to do that.

So I am thinking that you guys must use some kind of software that lets you monitor system info.

Could I get some names of software that you guys use please

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

OK. The Program I use to monitor temps is Called Real Temp. You can get it here Real Temp - CPU temperature monitoring
Also you should get CPU-Z CPUID to monitor your CPU frequency and also its got RAM info and some other good stuff. These are both free and very small programs. I would not recomment using any form of Software Based Overclocking. If you do decide to go that way do it in the BIOS. Also If you could post a full spec list of your machine, with RAM model numbers it would assist us to help you.
Another Pretty good program is called GPU-Z GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility No prizes for guessing what that can do. Its pretty good for monitoring your Graphics card information. Give them a go. The Program Prime 95 Prime95 (32bit) - 25.8 Download - EXTREME Overclocking is I think one of the more choice programs for system Stress testing for stability.

[esswok �]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

Thank you for the info NimrodAUS I will check out the software as soon as I can get to my download rig I have 2 others on my desk right now so my desk is full now. I never download anything into this computer. I love it to much it is great.

my specs
Asus P5N-D motherboard
750 watt corsair power supply
C2Q 9450 processor
2 corsair 2 gig sticks ddr2 pc64 800
2 samsung 2 gig sticks ddr2 pc64 800
Liquid cooling is no brand name has water block, water pump radiator mounted on a 120mm fan
1 Hatachi 750 gig hd 7200
1 segate 750 gig hd 7200
2 PNY9800GTX+ 512 gig each
ASUS 22 inch HDMI pannel
lableflash
dvd standered R/W
vista 64
sound is provided by
80watt amp Boston Acoustic with 4 golden Band speaker terminals hooked to my Bose home theater sub woofer an 2 bose satillite & 2 boston acqoustic Satillite speakers.
1st generation kensington track ball
Lian Li box

my other is a
Asus IPIBL-LB mother board
400 watt power supply
E6420
9500 gt 512 gig
40 gig hd
80 gig hd
lableflsh dvd
Hauppauge TV card acer crap speakers
sansung 19 inch no dvi just vga
1x4 gig pny ddr2 pc64 800
XP 32
The box for that one is better than a cardboard box but not much better
It has no mounted button to turn on off it was my bench test power button, no face plate, no side coved

USB 160 gig and an 80 gig hd from laptops both are IDE 5400
2 bench monitors acer and a wal-mart
2 wrt54g
4 sb5101
supertech solder desolder
fire exstingisher
loads of keyboards and mousy, speakers
A SAC full of modems
Fluke 8060
Data IO
Paralax
allpro

U asked my spec

I have only re writen / flashed / updated the BIOS a couple times
in my life.
I visit the bios in many rigs often

So that is were you do OC huh in the bios

is it a special bios flash

I was reading a little about a mobo that has an adjustable voltage and multimeter terminals welded on board.

[esswok �]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

I got my other rig going now that stuff looks good thanks I have started to download the files.

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

Well unfortunatly I dont know much about ASUS Motherboards but I would assume like the Gigabyte it will have some form of tweaking in the BIOS you already have. Flashing to the latest BIOS is usually a good Idea but may not be nessacery. YouTube - Q6600, 3.6Ghz, 9600GT SLI, P5N-D, OVERCLOCKING, 3DMARK06 BENCHMARK Pretty much just have to google. There are videos out there that will show you were to look and what to do. Dont use the setting in this video it is just an example.

[esswok �]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

I GOT THE gpu-z 0.3.4
i am looking at ity now and it says on the bottem line that my

SLI is disabled WOW i guess i still need to enable it?

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

Lol Well I guess you should. I dont know really how because Ive never used NVIDIA SLI but Just google it im sure you will find the answer. Do you have the interconnectors between the two cards connected?

[esswok �]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

got it working
played sum video
flew a mission and used the
real temp3.00 got reading 51 54 52 62 max

gpu-z 3.4 67.0 c max

that sounds like I am ok?

[NimrodAUS]

Re: Not sure If I want to OC my rig right now

Yeah Those temps are good. Run Prime 95 And see what your CPU gets to in realtemp.