Should I give up cooling my P4 Prescott?

[tiap]

Looks like your biggest concern is getting the hot air out of the case.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Here's a really dumb thing; have you blown the dust out of the space between the heatsink fins? I remember in college I could slowly see the temps rise a degree or so each month. Hell, the computer that built my brother would idle @ 28C and wtihin a few weeks of living in the dorms, he was already up to 31 idle; and thats after only a few weeks of use. I also saw the same thing happen to a friend of mine. His actually had so much dust in the heatsink that the computer would shut down to protect the chip.

 

[j1b5c]

Oh man, check out these new temps. I just put in the Silverstone FM121 120 mm fan in the rear. These are my idle temps.

Motherboard: 30 °C (86 °F)
CPU: 43 °C (109 °F)
Aux: 30 °C (86 °F)
GPU: 41 °C (106 °F)
GPU Ambient: 35 °C (95 °F)

The window is open in my dorm room right now, so that's making it a little bit cooler but compare these temps with my old:

Motherboard: 39 °C (102 °F)
CPU: 60 °C (140 °F)
Aux: 38 °C (100 °F)
GPU: 48 °C (118 °F)
GPU Ambient: 43 °C (109 °F)

A 17 degree drop in CPU temperature!! I'm so happy right now I could cry. Well, not really but this is pretty sweet.

 

[zagood]

Awesome. Now put your stock Antec fan as an intake on the front and keep it at a low RPM, that'll help keep your load temps down.

-z