"Howard" wrote in message
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Ken,
Do you mean box fan as in a small fan installed in the pc enclosure or
are you using a big ol honkin room fan directed at your enclosure? If
you are using an AMD processor they do tend to run hotter than Intel;
I installed a second fan in my enclosure and it does keep the
temperature lower. Just something you may wish to consider - takes
less space and keeps your processor happy.

73,
Howard

It's a big honkin' $5 Wal-Mart special - taller than the PC so
I mounted the tower on stands to put the MB right in the flow
of air. The CPU is a 1.4g Athlon (not over clocked).

I've played with how far the exhaust side is away from a wall
- at 12" most of the air just blew by the components and my MB
and PS temps were not very low. Placing the right side of the
case 1" from the wall created enough back pressure to drop
both another 5-10%.

For the record I have a 2 fans on the case, 1 on the CPU and
1 on the power supply. My video card is a bit low end (Nvidia
G-force Ultra 8 meg) and has no fan. I have 340 gig of space
on 3 Westerd Digital HD's that want to run hot but with this big
box fan, are nice & cool now.

I'm thinking it's the video card......
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