Overclock 9500GT

I wouldn't let it go over 80*c because that could kill your card in prolonged use.

If you want a cheap upgrade, you could have get a cheap fan, or use on you have to blow on the passive cooler.

thanks for your reply. but i have only one 3-pin connector on my motherboard and i use that one for a case-fan. how can i connect additional fans?

You can use a 3 pin to 4pin molex converter that comes with most fans.

yea i got one 3 to 4 pin converter on my case fan (akasa). But it had still to connect to a 3 pin which means i had to connect both the 4 pin and the 3 pin for the fan to work. by the way it looked like this

whats artifacting?:S when i tried CoD 5 recently the screen snatched twice. the temp got to 68 C maximum when i benchmarked in Far Cry 2.

i suggest you use furmark since its more accurate. Before, I was using ati tools and it kept saying that it was unstable for some reason. I thought I had to return the card since ati tools was saying that the card was faulty. But then I used furmark and it wasnt getting any artifacts. I also stressed the card out by playing game to check if it was stable, in which, it was stable.

use furmark its stable gives accurate readingthat 9500gt is a good card for a 19inch crt monitor.it evens play crysis high\\medium with good fps(frames per second) drop your core clock with evga precision by 25 % increment then test