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Temperature Help

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napes22

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I recently got a new hard drive (Raptor 150gig) which replaced an older Rapter 1st generation drive. I had also bought an enzotech heatsink, which turned out to be too large for my case. After determining this I resat the chip and heatsink using the stock heatsink, and plugged in the wires for my hard drives changing the setup to allow better airflow. Now my case is running 5-6 degrees warmer than it had in the past. I installed speedfan to get better readings and apparently they are as follows:

(Programs running: Itunes (playing), Instant Messanger, Speedfan, Steam (the interface, no games loaded), Firefox (3 Tabs), ESET Anti-virus)

System: 52 C
CPU: 51 C
AUX: 54 C
HD0: 40 C (Raptor 150GIG)
HD1: 34 C (Seagate 400GIG)
HD2: 37 C (Raptor 74GIG)
Temp1: 40 C
Core: 33 C

When I shut all of the above programs down, the temperature only drops by 1-2 degrees max. All of these heat issues started when I went into my case and changed things. Could it have something to do with the fact that my room is very warm right now? It's maybe 70 F outside, and my room as always is probably warmer than that. Could those temperatures running at constant be damaging to my system? I know the System/CPU/AUX temps are way too hot, staying 50+ even when idle.

 
Check that your intake and exhaust fans are fully connected, and double check that you didn't move a wire/cable in the way of the main airflow into and out of the system. It may be as simple as a floppy ribbon cable sagging down...

The temps don't look that far from normal for the CPU and disk drives, so that is my current suggestion. But the 52C for the system, it doesn't seem correct at all. I mean, at around 70 outside, that puts it around 21C.... Unless your room is actually in the 80's or 90's, I just don't see how that temp is right.
 
Thanks, the weird thing is though that the system temps never change. Under load, idle always 51-54. I wonder could it be an error with the temperature sensors?
 
Upon further review after moving my wires around I notice a faint burning smell (i need to put my nose in there to notice it) coming from my Power supply, and it only seems that hot air is being exhausted from the case. Could this have something to do with it? A burning smell from the PSU kinda scares me.

Update: The smell has disappeared for some reason. Below are my Computer Specs. Do you see anything that might be causing the high temperatures? or anything that can be improved?

Case: Lian-Li 7B-II Plus
CPU: AMD X2 4200+ with Stock Heatsink
RAM: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB DDR2 800
Vid: Sapphire 1800XT with massive MASSCOOL VF1-PLUS
PSU: Liberty 500W
Mobo: Foxconn C51XEM2AA- 8EKRS2H Socket AM2
Fans: Stock 120mm Case Fans plus one additional Panaflow 80mm on top.
HD's: 400GB Seagage, 74 GB Raptor (Generation 1), 150GB Raptor (Generation 2)

 
The problem seemed to start when I re-seated the cpu when I bought a new heatsink (that wouldnt fit in my case). Since then I had already reseated it once and the heat problems are still here.

I'm using Arctic Silver 5. Could I have too think a layer applied? I put just enough on so where it spread to the point that you could not see the metal of the processor.
 
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