dell case, overheating?

bigsaucybob

bigsaucybob

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wit my dell case it does web surfing and listening to music at about 110-117 degrees farenheit. but after playing less intense games such as age of mythology it comes out of the game at about 131-136. that is with my fans turned all the way up on high speed. is this 2 hot? wat do u think the hottest it could go is? and will clearing space by hiding wires do anything for airflow and then lower temp? the inside is complicated so if u need to see pictues just ask
 
Yes, cleaning and wire managment will increase airflow which in turn decreases temp. Your temp. actually dont sound that high maybe just alittle. Try cleaning and do some wire managment and see what that does.
 
well wat i forgot to mention is that after i got my new soundcard temperatures have actually increased. music and web surfing now idles between 120-127 and i have hidden some wires and cleaned out some dust.
 
well i have a dell 4700 and the space is limited, i already have a fan taped to the side panel. i dont have the money for a new case.

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as u can see the red fan is taped to the side. the big green thing has a fan behind it cooling the heatsink directly. the high temperatures are mainly coming from the 2 hard drives. if u need some more detailed pics tell me.
 
Drill 4 holes in the bottom of your case and secure one of your harddrives there, having them stacked like that generates too much heat and no airflow through them. if you need mounting ideas, i can show you how and were to put them... also, like i said, replace the stock fan behind the little green air thingy
 
ok ok but would it be better maybe to drill 4 holes and secure another fan there? because i know how to do that. i cant say i know how to do it with a hard drive. and i would have replaced that fan but it doenst ahve holes for a screw it is a stock dell fan so it has like plastic clip kinda things so i cant screw anything in. but its a pretty big fan. wat about this on the bottom of the psu is a fan pulling in air then pushing it out the back of the computer. the problem i have is that if i take off the green thing u can see the fan is directly next to the extake fan. so would it be pointless because all the fan is doin is pushing in cold air to be immedialtly sucked out by the psu fan.
 
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