Heat question

Sudden

Sudden

Sudden

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I have an Akasa Eclipse case with the side panel. Am running 8800 gtx in SLI, x6800 processor, p5n32 sli premium mobo, and a Tagan 900W psu.
The cooler on the processor is a Zalman 9500 and i've got 2 Akasa fans installed apart from that. one at the back of the case, and one in the front.

Now my computer is on the floor, to my right, and when I sit on the chair, in some areas I just get hit by a blast of heat right on my face. It's getting pretty uncomfortable tbh :p It's not unbearable bad, but is quite uncomfortable when it happens. Just to clarify, its not that it suddenly outputs more heat, that amount is constant. It just reaches my face from the ground, below the desk and in the right position, gets me on the face :p

Acc. to everest, my temps are -
mobo - 40
Aux - 39
gpu1 - 69
gpu2 - 70
seagate hd - 36
wdc hd - 37

chassis fan is going at 3857 rpm

As far as I know, most of this heat is coming from the psu, since the side panel fan on the gfx card, and the akasa fans on the front n back are cool to the touch and the psu fan is jsut warm air.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this? I may have made a mistake in building it, since it was my first, so would welcome suggestions.

Oh, and fix it without resorting to liquid cooling :p Wanna stick to fan.
 
What are the CPU temps? It could be that when you are doing something CPU intensive that the heat is generated.
 
Acc. to AI booster, CPU is 39 degrees.
As I said, the amount of heat generated doesn't increase as such at any point. (i mean, gfx tmps increase when running a game, but I don't really feel that in particular on my face) happens just with windows etc as well.
 
Desk fan on top of PC pointing away from your face... If room circulation results in warm air heading your way, only way to prevent it is either move yourself or the PC, or force the airflow away from you.
 
Well, I don't think its the room circulation so much since when it was in a different room, the problem was still there. I was kinda hoping for an internal computer solution if one was possible. But by the loks of it, will just need a fan, or to change the position of the PC as you suggested. Might just do that. Only comes to the left side, so if I move it to my left side, should be ok.

Just now need to get something to elongate the ADSL wire :p would it going from socket to transfer point to diff. cable and then to pc slow it down much you guys think? (i know, wrong section, but since the topic is here anyway :p)
 
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