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"Radeon 9800 XT and extra cooling advice..."

It arrived yesterday morning and has so far kicked some serious ass when it comes to graphically demanding games at very nice frame rates. I have a query however. The temperature of my graphics processing unit is 67 degrees celcius (152 F). Now I'm not into all this cooling none sense but I wonder if someone could help. Firstly is this too hot? The little temp bar suggests not and its no where near full, about half way probably. Secondly, would using the noob style overclock (over drive) up the temp too high and spoil the card? Thirdly, what can I buy to cool it down that will go in my PC somewhere? I am looking for an extra fan of some sort but I am not too sure about all this cooling business and could do with a little help/point in the right direction. Finally, would a couple of extras fans increase the cards performance (without consuming too much power) considering that it would be running at cooler speeds?

One other thing, I can only seem to run Far Cry with Medium settings (Texture quality and water effects are on default Very High for the recommended count for my card) with only the 2 settings on very high. Every other game (Max Payne 2, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Splinter Cell, Halo, Prince of Persia, Deus EX: Invisible War) runs on top whack settings with little to no slow down at all. I am thinking it is possibly a bug with the drivers and the game (currently running the Catalyist 4.10 Drivers for Windows 2000). Will this be fixed for the release of the game or am I doing something wrong?

My PC specs are:

Windows 2000 (with service pack 4)
Direct X 9.0b
Athalon 2600 + XP (clocked at 2.1 GHZ)
1GB PC 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT 256mb
40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM) Hard Drive

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Merci!

Up and running on Windows XP! I can't get the serice pack due to the error Mr. GF reported but I know away around it with a proper Keygen. Other than that, very happy!

You can change your cd key after install if you want. Thus allowing installation of nessesities such as service pack one.

Not that I know about these things.....

I didn't mean its the same key as Windows 2000 but I meant that my current Windows 2000 key was generated.

tigamilla wrote:
> ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> I have a Key, the same with my current Windows 2000 PRO and it works
> great.
>
> That wont work...
>
> will it??

Don't know about Windows, but someone I know downloaded the 30 day trial for 3D Studio Max, and got a key generator for that... works with no time restriction now.

I'm giving a genuine version for free, won't you have that insteead of going down the Dark Side?

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> I have a Key, the same with my current Windows 2000 PRO and it works
> great.

That wont work...

will it??

Notorious Biggles wrote:

> Pro is no more stable than Home. It is the same core and mostly the
> same processes. In fact the only difference that I can find is that
> there is the share levels for networks in Pro, where as in Home
> something is either shared or not.

heh heh - yeah - thats why I decided to sell it...

You've spoilt my carefully worded advert now :-(

I have a Key, the same with my current Windows 2000 PRO and it works great.

Yeah, but it will only work for 30 days. After that it won't work because of product activation. Unless you can find a working key generator.

Pro is no more stable than Home. It is the same core and mostly the same processes. In fact the only difference that I can find is that there is the share levels for networks in Pro, where as in Home something is either shared or not.

I can'r afford to waste money on operating systems, I can get them by other *cheaper* methods ;)

I am grabbing XP Pro at the moment so hopefully I will be running on that within the next couple of hours.