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Well, although reseating the heatsink brought the idle temp down, when I'm doing any kind of gaming, my CPU temp skyrockets to 68-70C. My ambient temperature also rises from 38C idle to 45C. My grahpics card (nVidia GeForce 6800 GT PCI-X) reports a temp of 62C when I'm doing gaming. Now, I realize that it is impossible to damage a P4 from heat since they automatically reduce their clock speeds and all that in high temps, but I'm just concerned about these temperatures. Are they too high or about right for a Prescott/high end GFX card system? If they are too high.. any suggestions to bring the temp down? As I stated above, I have a 120mm exhaust fan in the back, replaced my stock PSU to an Enermax which has a fan in the back and on the bottom, an 80mm exhaust on the top of the case, and an 80mm intake on the side panel that is located right about over the processor.
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