my setup is a AMD Athlon 1600+, 256Mb DDR memory, 1x 5400rpm hard drive and an 7200rpm Seagate drive. During the last summer, my PC’s temp ran at 63 degrees celsius while playing Unreal Tournament, for other games it would run at about 60-62C. When idling the tempreture will be around 55 – 57 degrees. This was while I had a TNT2-M64 graphics card in my machine, but I recently replaced it with a GF4-Ti4200 which will generate some more heat in the case. The M/B tempreture was fine, running 30-34degrees Celsius. I have got a fan in the front blowing air in, one at the near the CPU blowing hot air out, plus the normal CPU, Graphics card and PSU fans also running.
Do you have any suggestions on getting my PC to run cooler. Unluckely it iswinter here, when summer comes I will only be able to see the real effect of heat in the hot summer days on my PC with the new graphics card.
Some articles and discussions I have read, people have said that their PC’s run at 40 degrees Celsius. If they can do it, why can’t I?
Thanks