3 Case fans, 1 PSU fan, Volcano 5 HSF, High temps!!!!!

[RyanB18]

Hi. I have the Enlight 7238, one intake fan, 2 exhaust fans, a volcano 5 hsf, and a psu fan. I am running the ECS K7AMA MBoard, Athlon 1.4 ghz tbird, 2 hard drives, 256 mb micron ddr ram, cardexpert/gainward geforce 2 mx. Using MotherBoard Monitor, my CPU temp is 49 C Idle. How can I decrease this? When I take off the side of my case the temp usually goes down 10 degrees celcius. How do I get better circulation without modding the case? (I dont have tools, time, or money to do this). Also, I have one extra fan but no where to put it, where can i mount it and where can i get a 3pin to 4 pin adapter?

 

[Zach]

How high does it get? You're doing fine, you could take out some fans. Chances are they don't do much.

 

[RyanB18]

They Idle at around 49 CPU and 35 Case. I dont know what full load temps are because I dont know how to do that in MBM.

 

[QuackQuack]

Download Prime95. Install and run the "torture test". When the temps stop going up, that's your load temp.

 

[RyanB18]

Full load was 54 CPU, 37 Case. Is that bad?

 

[Bovinicus]

That's not bad at all, the Volcano5 isn't all that great of a heatsink. In fact, I think you could be doing worse with a heatsink like that. That's completely safe, 90c-95c is the max operating temparature. What speed CPU by the way?

 

[Bovinicus]

Oh nm. 1.4