I think I may have a backward problem. My case temperature is keeping my CPU temperature too high.
I have an 80mm fan exhaust right above the CPU. My case temperature is like 31 and my CPU is about the same. The bottom PCI cards and warm and the 3.5" bays holding my two IDE drives is HOT. I have a floppy and a zip drive, plus a CDRom, CDR, and SCSI drive in the 5.25" I have no room; its all pushed together. The metal frame holding all this is hot to the touch and you can tell this is where the heat is coming from. I used to have a HDD cooler for the SCSI drive in the 5.25" bay but something was loose and was making an annoying rattling sound which I couldn't fix... I don't have an intake fan put in. Will this REALLY make that much of a difference aside from adding noise. I mean, the holes for this fan on the case seem to just lead to a wall and there's not really an external access....
Any suggestions? I also keep my case open ATM... If I add that intake fan at the bottom front, I should be leaving it closed?
I have an 80mm fan exhaust right above the CPU. My case temperature is like 31 and my CPU is about the same. The bottom PCI cards and warm and the 3.5" bays holding my two IDE drives is HOT. I have a floppy and a zip drive, plus a CDRom, CDR, and SCSI drive in the 5.25" I have no room; its all pushed together. The metal frame holding all this is hot to the touch and you can tell this is where the heat is coming from. I used to have a HDD cooler for the SCSI drive in the 5.25" bay but something was loose and was making an annoying rattling sound which I couldn't fix... I don't have an intake fan put in. Will this REALLY make that much of a difference aside from adding noise. I mean, the holes for this fan on the case seem to just lead to a wall and there's not really an external access....
Any suggestions? I also keep my case open ATM... If I add that intake fan at the bottom front, I should be leaving it closed?