I just moved into a new Antec slk3000B and a Seasonic S12-430, from my generic crap case and psu.
The old one sounded like a tornado and ran at 33-38 case and 48-55 CPU .
New setup is silent, I can barley hear it as it purrs along at my feet, and the case temps are now 27, and the CPU is 40. And I even lowered my HS fan to 5v!!!!
I ran a filter on Photoshop to keep the CPU at 100% for 5 minutes, and it never got above 45.
I also lapped my si-97 while it was out, and that might have some effect on the CPU temp.
The nickel-plating thing by Thermalright is crap. From the way it looked as I lapped it, the base looked like is was faces with a fly cutter (about the quickest, cheapest and least precise way to do it), not ground or lapped.
Next I just need to rig a filter to cover the side panel openings and hope the temps don?t rise.
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