900mhz Athalon is 53c....and Im very scared.......

[Justin]

Yeah I had a 550mhz and I had it running at 100 degrees and when i fired up my brand new system i saw 130!!!! i was scared as hell!!! I called the guy who sold me my new motherboard and he said 130 was ok??!?!?!?!?!? He said 150 was the danger zone. So....yeah ok heres my setup. I have a midtower case and a hard drive cooler with no hard drive in the slot under the cd rom. I got an 80mm where my floppy drives would be and got my hard drive under that. I currently have no fan sucking in air through the bottom. I got a pretty big dual fan setup on the cpu. They are piggy back style....and i got an 80mm sucking air out. Now i think my cooling isnt as organized and i have many little "nether regions" that dont allow smooth airflow but im trying to find a solution. Anyone else hads theses case temps TELL ME SO I DONT HAVE TO WORRY!!!

[Justin]

Yeah i got some radioshack thermal compound on it...and the heatsink is pretty big.....and like i said its a piggyback fan...so im thinking about ripping out the whole bottom front of my case and mounting a 120mm in there. and then throw in some more larger ones. just by reading around here small crapppy fans dont cut it.

[wildone]

with mine overclocked and me running the net and doing this my temps at this exact moment are 109F or 43 C , what kind of cpu fan did you say you had , you may want to check the thermal compound on it , also with the cheap AMD approved fan the proc. came with it ran at like 143 under load and idled at 130 ,
wildone

[Justin]

I got a no name fan setup...and the dual fans are about half an inch apart...and they rotate at about 5000 average...dont dual fans do a better job than one? also im thinking about cutting a cardboard ring to fit around the space between the fans to focus airflow more around the proc. Damn i need a dremel for what im going to do.....

[jeff_harrison_344]

Dual fans do do a bit better job then just 1, but not as much as most people think.