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I recently bought a Soltek QBiC Small Form Factor barebones (pics via newegg) and the airflow in it is less than pleasing. It has a great built in exhaust on one side (much like a card-slot exhaust, but it doesn't take up a slot) but there are no real intake fans. Also, the PSU has an exhaust fan on the underside of it which fights the CPU heatsink fan for airflow. MBM5 shows my CPU (AthlonXP 3200+ no OC) sitting at 58ºC just running Firefox and AIM. :eek: I was wondering if there were any card-slot fans that were intake fans, or could be modified to be intake fans. If I could put one of those in my empty pci slot, it would feed cold air across the cpu straight to the exhaust on the other side. This may kill any airflow the RAM is getting right now, but I could care less about that with these CPU temps.

edit: turns out mbm was showing the wrong sensor, the cpu is around 55-58 (i.e. still about 20º too high) at idle... but some other random sensor shows about 65-75 and its never constant like when you choose a sensor that doesn't exist on your model of board or something.
 
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