case cooling after OC

young lad · 17 May 2006 at 22:57

Hey have manged to get my 3700+ to 2.8ghz, and it gets to 45 load which is hot imo maybe not to you but, I have a alaska amber sat around doing nothing, and if i was to cut a hole in the side of my case and put it over where my cooler sucks air in would that cool it a bit more? or would it be best to put it above my HD as that hits 53c :O

Cheers guys

Mikey1280 · 17 May 2006 at 22:58

Best to put it blowing air over HD if it reports 53 degrees, does it have any airflow atm?

young lad · 17 May 2006 at 23:03

Yes a 3 speed fan that came with my pc seems to make no diffrence but i can offord to replace a HD if necesery but not a cpu for a while anyway.

str · 18 May 2006 at 00:02

The HD at 53c suggests you have an airflow problem in your case. The air around the HD isn't being cooled at all and is becoming stale resulting in the high temperature. I suggest you fix that problem as a priority because around 55c is the absolute max temperature you would want a HD to reach.