OK, you can see my sig, now tell me, is 35*C idle and 53*C MAX LOAD good temps? Are they acceptable? what should they be at? Am I risking any hardware here?
35c idle a good! *thumbs up*
53c load, is high, nothing to be really scared of but it is high, maybe get a decent after market cooler, a Zalman?
EDIT: well, now I see you don't have stock
Erm, I don't really know how to bring them down... I don't think they are anything to worry about!
Why Zalman? The Thermaltake BT beats the CNPS9500 at stock, and with an upgrade fan, probably will beat the 9700.
I have a 120mm fan in between my hard drive holder thing going directly at my mobo, a 80mm fan intake, a 80mm fan out take and a 80mm fan on a slant next to open PCI slots blowing directly on the graphics card...I think thats good...
Your temps are fine, but they'll be lower if you get a better ventilated case.
I have a 120mm on the top, 120mm on the back, 120mm on the wind tunnel in the bottom, 80mm attached to a fanless gpu cooler, an 120mm rigged on my cpu heatsink and a 120mm in the front (currently turned off). I'm not saying you have bad ventilation, but you can always have betterAlso, I would suggest that you should try to at least balance out intake with outtake, if not have more outtake fans.
Do you have a pic of the inside, I don't really get what you mean![]()