PC cooling or graphics upgrade?

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#1 Lonelystrokez
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I'm using stock heatsink and case only has the back fan.My current graphics card is HD 3650.Should i upgrade my pc cooling with a 2 scythe 3000 kraze kaze fans and a hyper 212 evo heatsink or wait another month just in time for diablo 3 to upgrade my gpu to HD6850? Ive seen my cpu temps go up to 48c maybe even 58c.

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#2 Darthmatt
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I do a lot of rendering on m PC that maxes out the CPU for hours at a time. I went with the Corsair h60 liquid cool heat-sink and its been worth it so far (keeps at a solid 52° C at 100% CPU output). I think if you are worried about heat issues its worth it.

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#3 Silicel1
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Get the GPU no doubt about that.

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#4 thebigyin
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Gpu for sure! are you going to overclock your cpu? If not then don't worry about the temps.
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#5 Lonelystrokez
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Gpu for sure! are you going to overclock your cpu? If not then don't worry about the temps. thebigyin
No overclocking yet,I need ro read up on that some more before i try it.

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#6 GS550L
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Get the GPU. If you're worried about the fans, you could purchase a couple of Yate-Loons for cheap off Jabtech.

Or, if Diablo 3 is your only concern and you will not benefit from a new graphics card right now, I'd just wait and only make a purchase when you really need the extra GPU power. There's no point in making a purchase right now if you're not going to immediately benefit from it.

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[QUOTE="thebigyin"]Gpu for sure! are you going to overclock your cpu? If not then don't worry about the temps. Lonelystrokez

No overclocking yet,I need ro read up on that some more before i try it.

But did you unlock the CPU like it says in your sig? You definitely shouldn't run 6 cores with the stock cooler.

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#8 Silicel1
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[QUOTE="Lonelystrokez"]

[QUOTE="thebigyin"]Gpu for sure! are you going to overclock your cpu? If not then don't worry about the temps. PfizersaurusRex

No overclocking yet,I need ro read up on that some more before i try it.

But did you unlock the CPU like it says in your sig? You definitely shouldn't run 6 cores with the stock cooler.

It will be fine.
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#9 Lonelystrokez
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[QUOTE="PfizersaurusRex"]

[QUOTE="Lonelystrokez"] No overclocking yet,I need ro read up on that some more before i try it.

Silicel1

But did you unlock the CPU like it says in your sig? You definitely shouldn't run 6 cores with the stock cooler.

It will be fine.

I did unlock it but i put it back to 4 core.

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[QUOTE="Silicel1"][QUOTE="PfizersaurusRex"]

But did you unlock the CPU like it says in your sig? You definitely shouldn't run 6 cores with the stock cooler.

Lonelystrokez

It will be fine.

I did unlock it but i put it back to 4 core.

As long as the temps are under 60 it's fine.