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My rig has an 80mm fan at the front as an intake. I noticed my primary HDD (120gb WDigital drive with 2mb cache) was generating some heat, and so mounted it fairly low in the case so that air from the front intake is blown accross it. This has done a nice job of reducing the temp on the drive...
I'm only running with a cheap case atm, although my temps arent too bad. I'm going to be upping the system to 1gb ram and changing the PSU for a TT 480W with passive/active PFC (model No is W0011R for those who want to take a look) - all in preparation for replacing my 128mb Ti4200 with a 256mb...
I had a problem when I used too much paste on my XP2800+. Although my temps did not go up, they did not go down either. Cleaning it up makes a big difference - All I had to do was make sure the paste was ONLY on the die, and didn't touch any of the other exposed parts on top of the chip -...