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Old 09-05-2006, 03:46 AM   #603 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pbdr View Post
Look at your thermostat. If it is hotter than 16 C in the room with your computer, you are going to have a very tough (i.e. not possible) time cooling your CPU to less than ambient temperature.

A heatsink/fan works by utilizing room temerature airflow.
the thermostat says 73 right now

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