Does my cabling/airflow look okay?

[Crescent13]

Here are pics,

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pic 3 shows the fan I was talking about. my 6600GT gets 55C idle, 72C load without fan, and runs at 48C idle, 55C load with the fan. Do you think the problem is with my cabling, or my airflow, or both?

 

[NokiaDude]

48C idle and 55C load is great for that card. I remeber having a 6800NU with the dinky 6600 type heatsink and it ran about 50C idle and 75C load. Your cabling is very nice. Maybe an instake fan will help? One question for ya, is that an actual emachine or did you resurrect the case?

EDIT: If I were you, I'd sell all your RAM and buy two sticks of 512mb RAM. Does it run at DDR333 or DDR400? It looks like single sided RAM to me.

 

[Crescent13]

It's an actual e-machine, that I did alot of upgrading to. It came with 2 256 pieces of ram, and I bought another 2 256mb pieces. that's single sided DDR400.

 

[monster64]

55C Load, thats a problem? My 6800 GT is 60C at idle, and thats a good temp.
Blowing the fan into the case is not always good. With an open case your temps might actually be alot lower, than with a big fan, as it might mess up the airflow. My cpu temp went from 51C to 45C full load when I opened the case, and then back up to 48C when I blew a fan into it. I might make a guide about it since so many peopel seem to be doing this.

 

[NokiaDude]

What exactly did you upgrade? It looks like the mobo, cpu, sound card and video card weren't there in the first place.

 

[Crescent13]

I'm talking about the temps in the topic summary. In order to get 55C load, I need the big fan and it is too noisy.

EDIT: i'm talking to monster 64

 

[Crescent13]

Nokia Dude, I got this e-machines and upgraded the sound card, graphic card, ram, network card, and hard drive cooling.

 

[NokiaDude]

72C without the fan is fine. GPU's aren't like CPU's. They can handle the heat. Sure, you can modify a copper heatsink and attach it to your video card but it'll most likely bend the card.