it shouldnt have any problems overheating if you leave it on all day. the only time it will overheat if is you didnt overclock right, watch your temperatures at idle, or didnt plug in something right.
60 at the most if i remember right for vid cards... it'll start to melt if its any higher. dunno about cpus.
My CPU is kinda ----ed, i get like 53 C standard. Anything above 75 C is really what you want to look out for. Although, if your overclock (and you better overclock, this cpu was made for it), try to keep it below 60 C. It preforms a lot better at that temp.
swap the two caviers for one of seagates PRM drives. Significantly increased cluster density has the net result of making it faster than those two drives in RAID, more reliable and cheaper(fewer disk platters per drive, also RAID0 is a pain in the ass to implement[especially for a beginnner] and it exponentially increases the risk fo data corruption). the 320GB PRM barracuda is an excellent drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148140 and overclocking is setting a part above it's specified setting... for example, it is very easy top set that PD805 to say... 3.3GHz I mean seriously, there is more or less no skill nor effort involved, all you do is press the del button on startup, find the FSB setting and change it to 166mhz(666mhz quadpumped) and you have a 25% performance boost effortlessly(though with your knowlege ti would not eb adviseabel at all to go any higher as there is a potential risk involved if you don't know what you're doing.) and ICEx2, I think 80C is a bit more reasonable as a max for vid cards, the threshhold on my 7800GT was 115C(the card never really went beyond 40-50C though) and again, as most people said the risk of overheating is relatively low, and only relevant when voltage increases are applied(to a point). for a netburst proc(like the PD805) the point you shoudl start to get worried is around the upper 60s and SLi is bull---- if you don't so it straight off and even then it has a high cost of entry(more expensive motehrboard, more powerfull PSU, two cards) x800GTO is the best bang/$ card out there. Also, for a little rmoe you get a bit more(115$ish) on the RAM(300+mhz) and core(like 25ish but it's negligeable since all cores are more or less the same and OC about the same) and in terms of reliability, I had my CPU overclocked nearly 50% and left it on under full load(both cores maxed out) during a 24hour burn-in(period where you run a few things to test to make sure everything is stable, it tends to crash unstable sytems[typically within 5-10 minutes]) and it had no issues. again heat is less of an issue on this system than it is on an OEM system(they skimp on cooling a lot)
swap the two caviers for one of seagates PRM drives. Significantly increased cluster density has the net result of making it faster than those two drives in RAID, more reliable and cheaper(fewer disk platters per drive, also RAID0 is a pain in the ass to implement[especially for a beginnner] and it exponentially increases the risk fo data corruption). the 320GB PRM barracuda is an excellent drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148140 and overclocking is setting a part above it's specified setting... for example, it is very easy top set that PD805 to say... 3.3GHz I mean seriously, there is more or less no skill nor effort involved, all you do is press the del button on startup, find the FSB setting and change it to 166mhz(666mhz quadpumped) and you have a 25% performance boost effortlessly(though with your knowlege ti would not eb adviseabel at all to go any higher as there is a potential risk involved if you don't know what you're doing.) and ICEx2, I think 80C is a bit more reasonable as a max for vid cards, the threshhold on my 7800GT was 115C(the card never really went beyond 40-50C though) and again, as most people said the risk of overheating is relatively low, and only relevant when voltage increases are applied(to a point). for a netburst proc(like the PD805) the point you shoudl start to get worried is around the upper 60s and SLi is bull---- if you don't so it straight off and even then it has a high cost of entry(more expensive motehrboard, more powerfull PSU, two cards) x800GTO is the best bang/$ card out there. Also, for a little rmoe you get a bit more(115$ish) on the RAM(300+mhz) and core(like 25ish but it's negligeable since all cores are more or less the same and OC about the same) and in terms of reliability, I had my CPU overclocked nearly 50% and left it on under full load(both cores maxed out) during a 24hour burn-in(period where you run a few things to test to make sure everything is stable, it tends to crash unstable sytems[typically within 5-10 minutes]) and it had no issues. again heat is less of an issue on this system than it is on an OEM system(they skimp on cooling a lot)
I would suggest 2x 160 GB rather then 1x 320 GB. No partitioning involved. Just easier, plus you don't have to worry about your personal/extra files when you go to format one drive. I wasn't expecting him to RAID the hard drives, I just chose what I thought was the best deal on the Hard Drives and stated two of them. If you go for like 1x 200 GB you can save money, and partition them into like... 1 Partition of 150 GB and one partition of 50 GB (for programs, games, OS). Although, 200 GB would never last me. But it would save money (money you could put towards a Conroe instead of a Pentium D 805.)
have you ever set up a raid array? for someone who has no idea WTF they are doing, it isn't fun... also, whats faster, having the extra platters integrated directly onto the part... or on another part with aditional latency? one larger drive is essentially two smaller ones with RAID 0 built in, but more reliable... performance is compareable(slightly higher in raid albiet as one disk platter shares data vs 2. though typically larger drives have higher cluster density which makes up for it) also, the 320GB drive is cheaper than two 160s...
