well personally not to rain on your parade, i think itis YOUR fault for the most part. ID bet that you do not have the correct airflowe setup, of have tried to optimize your air flow path or the space that you have availible in the case.
(all these are just thing i do)
#1. Try rounded cables, or just do it youself..or send em to me and ill do it for free.
#2. Im sure that there are also power wires (red/back/yello) for video card and cdrom HD, floppy whatever. Also get some spiral wrap or some split loom and make those wires take up as much space as possible, less space for parts is more space for air. I personally dont spend $$ on loom or wrap, i just use colored electrical tape depending on case colors.
#3. I use black or colored zip ties to keep wires that are already rounded, from hanging out of the way and blocking more airflow.
#4. As most cases have holes for intake/exhaust fans, they also have grills built in (not the silver ones that screw in) but just part of the case chassis that has been cut out to allow airflow. Those grills are NOT small or thin by ANY means, take the case apart and cut them totally out and if you must (i dont use grills in the rear) add some of the thin silver ones. That WILL allow for roughly 20% more cfm to flow from each fan using one of those holes.
#5. What alot of people overlook is, negative or positive air pressure. You cna have all the cfm in the world but if it is not equal intake/exhaust then it will not perform as well as it CAN.
Normally when using case fans there is 1-2 intake and 1-2 exhaust and the PS fan. Technically you would be best using the same # of fans for in and out, and use the EXACT same fan to ensure the EXACT same cfm to be as equal as possible. But you have to account for the normal 20-25cfm PS fan. Having positive pressue is what you want if you must hae it unequal (it is always better to have more cool air going in than warm air getting sucked out) NEGATIVE=warm air out=temp not rising but also nit dropping=not enough cool air being introduced to the case/hs. POSITIVE=cool air in=temp not rising from the exhaust & dropping if possible=cooler than chip/hs air being introduced to the case/hs.
So what i did was use 2 47cfm(47cfm 39db high fow Panaflo 80mm's) fans for intake giving me-94 cfm intake, and 2 37 cfm(37 cfm 38 db high flow Sanyo Denki 80mm's) fans for exhaust giving me-74 cfm exhaust, and i had previously calculateed my Enhance PS 80mm fan at 20cfm. Addind that into exhaust giving me also 94-cfm of total exhaust. Being 100% equal
my chip temps are usually 38-39c idle(ambient is 25c 99% of time) withing 5 minutes from a cold boot, and after a 12 hr load at a speed of 1733 (from a default of 1600) and a vcore of (1.825). I am running a TINY 60mm Millenium Glaciator HS that has ONLY a 29cfm 60mm fan. Using as3 andi have NEVER and i mea NEVER seen over 40c load for even days at a time.
ergo: the chip is hot yes but it does not mean it cannot see reasonalbe temps. If you go to Intel you will be dissapoined if youve been computing long, and the performace will be noticeable unless you get a p4 2.2@ 2.8 or so but then you pockets will be hurting also.
but again, just my2c what the heck do i know.
