Room: 78F - 25C
Case: 102F - 39C
CPU: 129F - 54C
My CPU seems to run hot =/. I'm gonna be renovating my case though. Personally I can't see why putting in front fans will help that much..its right behind the circuit boards for the extra USB's on the front..theres not enough space for air to really be 'SUCKED' in...so how much of a performance can they be?
Current:
2 - stacked 80mm fans - side - exhaust
1 - rear - intake 80mm fan
Here in a couple weeks:
2 - stacked 80mm fans - side - exhaust
1 - Rear - vantec tornado 80mm
1 - top blowhole - 120mm fan
1 - Coolermaster Jet blower for CPU..
rear intake will work out PERFECT cause the tornado and the centrifugal design of the blower line up PERFECTLY...so the tornado will blow right into the drum of the blower and it'll force it down even better. Plus I'll be giving my heatsink a good lapping plus I'll be using AS5 compared to stock heatsink and fan with generic compound as of right now. PLUS I MIGHT get the 35w 2500+ XP-M the way my computer has been acting lately has made me shy away from wanting to overclock..although after I found out that guy put grease ontop of a thermal pad and then put a glob on the core and shorted the little circuits around the core =/ luckily chip still works, but HD boot sector took a fall so I had to format my 20gb =(
I do have a clockwise spinning 60mm fan on the CPU...if you get this:
http://www.svc.com/fa6080-uvblu.html
attach the 60mm clockwise and then the 80mm tornado on top..and you'll have a compressor! Two fans spinning in opposite direction but having the same airflow....with that duct especially and the fact that the tornado already has blades on the bottom that are non-moving but twisted in opposite of that of the fan blades, you'd probably have one hell of a little compressor.....bet your CFM and air pressure would be nice and high......I would try it, but I've been taking my comp apart so much lately its getting tiresome...if I get a spare PC built if I buy that 2400+ XP-M I'll buy another tornado and that duct and get temps with just the tornado and then temps with that duct and let you guys know how it works out!.
BTW: heres a nice celcius to fahrenheit convertor:
http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm
EDIT: Wow I'm truly sorry I got offsubject....I don't know what happened.....It depends on what you use your computer for. I personally turn mine off everynight to conserve energy and just to give my processor some 'calm down' time I suppose you could say. They make a good point. go Into power settings and make sure you have it so your monitor eventually goes off and goes into standby mode and turns off hard drives for when you're leaving it on over night. My friend in washington..I was there 2 weeks and never once saw his computer turned off or even restarted. If you're doing Seti@home or Folding@home then it's cool, but basically CPU's are meant to last for thousands of hours...turning it off might gain me an extra 10 hours of life for my CPU opposed to you leaving it on...who the hell knows