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Old 11-24-2005
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Have my gaming PC.. need help cooling it down

Hi can anyone plz recommend me some cooling ideas for this system? its gonna be used to game mostly and im gnna do some light OC'ing.. nothing hardcore.

eVGA E-GEFORCE 6600GT 128M DDR3 PCI-E VGA DVI HD OUT VIDEO CARD

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Processor S939 Venice 1.8GHZ 512K L2 Cache 90NM Retail Box

EVGA ATX S939 NFORCE4 DDR PCI-E16 1PCI-E 3PCI SATA2 RAID Sound GBLAN Motherboard 1

Fortron FSP/SPI SAGA AX450-PN 450W ATX12V 20/24PIN Power Supply W/ 120MM Fan P4 AMD Ready Retail

Samsung 2x512MB RAM

Pioneer DVD Burner
CD Burner
DVD ROM
Floppy

CASE will be the new thermaltake Swing...

i also plan on adding some UV lights..

uhmm thank you
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Old 11-26-2005
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Zalman coolers for the video card and processor will work great. I put one on a 6600gt and it lowered the temp 15-20* and is nearly silent. Their CPU cooler will work just as well.
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Old 06-12-2009
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Make sure you have enough case fans, or your pc will turn into an oven.
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