case temps dooming my sys?

[discombob]

Epox 8KHA
AYHJA 1.33 bird
SVC Golden Gate (Gladiator with 27cfm fan)
Geforce 2 (generates a little bit of heat)
Enermax 350w (FC)

and now for the pisser:
Enlight 7101 w/1 Sunon 60mm intake


I must say that I think the Enlight is killing me. My ambient temps hover near 40-C and my 1.33 runs 1.2 at 1.7 volts around 60-C! That's 60-C underclocked!

I certainly would like to get around 48-C for the CPU temp so I can O/C a little. The enlight case only provisions one intake fan space in the front and I have a Sunon 60mm there. The case itself is getting almost too hot to touch on the backplane near the power supply. It doesn't lock or anything but the CPU gives errors in testing progs at this temp. I just put this together and obviously not going to run this way for long. I am suspecting that without a better case capable of more cooling, I'm pretty much screwed.

I think I'll test that after work today by removing the case and using a big room fan blowing in and see what my CPU temps go down to, but please, go ahead and tell me I'm screwed ahead of time so I can imagine having to shell out even more money for a new case... yes, please, indulge me

 

[p0tempkin]

Nah, if you remove the side of your case and put a big fan there, you'll be fine.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Just mod it yourself. I added half a dozen fans to my case, a pair of 60mm fans can be placed nicely in a pair of unused 5.25" bays and actually result in a killer drive cooler. A pair of 120mm fans on the side can reduce a case temp massively even at 7V (I see more than a 15F case temp drop)

 

[discombob]

It would be optimal to keep my case together someday... would love to mod it, but I have no tools at all and nowhere to work if I did (live in an apartment with no garage).

Oh hell. Want to recommend a drill for me?

 

[rogue1979]

Use a Dremel. Drill a pilot hole with a large diameter drill bit to get started, or carefully measure and drill a series of holes in a circular pattern. Get a carbide tungsten cutting attachment and connect the dots. Use a different attachment to smooth the hole. Be careful not to remove too much material, and mark the circular hole well with a marker. It is tedious and time consuming, but with a steady hand and patience it is not hard. Slap a stainless steel grill on there and you have a professional hi-flow blowhole that will work wonders for cooling. I had blowholes made from very tight patterns of drill holes, but when I cut the entire circle out my cooling improved immensely.