Cooling a 3800 in a Antec Overture II case

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I was looking for some advise on the best way to cool this machine. The Spec is a 3800 X2 on a MSI Nforce 4 with Akasa Evo 120 cooler, 6800GT with Arctic cooler, 2 x 250 GB Western HDDs, 4 x 320 GB HDDs, ATI Theatre 550Pro in a Antec Overture II case.

The case is supposedly designed for quiet operation, but mine makes more noice than the aircon fans, and it seems to be the power supply, which is some what integrated in this case, does anyone have any experience with this case, or perhaps can suggest a more suitable case? I initially chose this case for two reasons, one that I really like Antec stuff, and more importantly it would fit in the 14.5 cm shelf under the TV. I do have the option to relocate to a much larger shelf if a case change is the solution.

Any thoughts?
 
How did you get an evo 120 into that?

Umm, wasn't easy, but needed a better fan as the Arctic silencer 64 wasn't up to the dual core chip. The evo has quite long heatpipes that I was able to bend, carefully so as not to crush, so that the rad was at about 30 degrees to the board, had to slide the fan up slightly to clear the heatpies, but now it draws air right over the memory also. It looks more like a XP120 now, but with the fan mounted between the processor and the rad.

Umm, might take the PSU to pieces, see what can be done with the current fans. I suspect they are 80mm, which tend to be noiser anyways
 
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