Cooling!

[slaman]

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?

 

[lenjack]

Your board temp is slightly high, but OK. Your CPU temp is terrific if it is accurate.

 

[slaman]

Ok, I've finally figured out my temperatures.... seems like Motherboard Monitor needed some modifications...

Ok, I am running a Pentium III 700MHz @ 855 MHz

Case temperature is steady at 34 degrees Celcius. My room is small and hot (dorm room) and I have one intake fan (I can't even feel any air being blown by it) and one exhaust fan (works well)... Currently, I leave my case open...

My CPU is running idle at about 29 degrees and with a bunch of applications open, I'm running about 37... I am oc'ing my SDRAM to 120 MHz (its PC100).... I cant seem to get the 133:100 ratio working with my Asus CUSL2 (freezes at startup)

Need suggestions for cooling my case down... Can I reach 933MHz with additional CPU cooling, or is my chip bad, or my RAM bad (shouldn't be because I can keep that at 100), or is my case temp too high?

 

[slaman]

The max temperature I have reached so far is 47 degrees... This is with the above configuration playing Episode One: Racer at max settings (1600x1200)... The case temperature was 37...

I can't seem to clock higher than 855MHz with retail hsf. I am pushing my PC100 RAM to 122 which is a bit high. If I change the ratio to 133:100 on my CUSL2, it freezes on startup. Help!