Too hot?

[fini]

I've FINALLY ordered the components for my new PC (those of you who read this regularly might have seen week after week of questions from me) and suddenly my <insert rude word here> of a family has made me paranoid about heating or rather overheating. I decided to go for a midi case instead of a full tower on the grounds that the one I wanted was out and they couldn’t tell me when it was going to be in again. SO I’m about to order my undersized PC when someone starts going on about how the system exhaust fan I was going to get would mess up the air flow in the case so I decided to get another fan instead of it. The problem came when I ordered and remembered I forgot to put the extra fan on.

I did order 1 fan (Papst 80mm) and a fan comes with the case. I also ordered a Thermalright AX7 heatsink with a cheap (£3.50) YS-Tech 80mm fan on that.

The case is a Juno P6 and is not aluminium. I'm going to be running an AMD XP 2000+ CPU not overclocked and a MSI Geforce 4 MX graphics card with 1 HD, 1 DVD ROM and 1 floppy.

Am I going to have to rent out the headless chicken costume again and try and buy another fan quick or will the system run cool enough seeming as I'm not going to overclock it.

Also what are good temps for the processor under stress and not under stress?

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[Rocketmech]

The "Thermalright AX7 heatsink with a cheap (£3.50) YS-Tech 80mm fan " looks ok, but I would recommend you have a bottom front case fan , 80mm, blowing into the case and another 80mm case fan in the back , at cpu level , exhausting hot air from the case. The power supply fan is just not enough for the Athlon's. Also, be sure you have a good adequate power supply for the XP 2000+ . AMD's site has all the recommendations. As for avg. temps? 45-50 normal, 50-55c loaded, 60c alarm.

[Ape0r]

You'll be fine with just the AX-7 and your PSU, unless your PSU has bad airflow. I run an AX-7 with a cheapo fan that came with my case, it is very low speed and quiet. There's also the fan on my GF3 and I have a 92MM intake and 80MM exhaust on the PSU. You only really need case fans if you are running a number crunching prog, or some other program that puts you under load for 5+ hours. I have 3 80 MM fans and a 120 MM fan on my digital doc, but I rarely use them. Without the case fans, my idle temp is 35C, and with it is 32C. Under heavy load overnight however, without the thing has broken 60C and my alarms have awoken me from my sleep to shut some things down :). With case fans under full load, it doesn't exceed 54C.

[fini]

phew,, thanks

I didn't ordered a special PSU, so I guess I'll get whatever they people over at Juno feel is adequate. The case cost me £45 so will the PSU really be OK? If not should I wait for it to die in spectacular fashion and then get one or not?

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[Ape0r]

Almost all motherboards have thermal monitoring. Don't worry unless it is consistently above 58C or so, technically it will be alright all the way up to 95C without a hitch - but I would NEVER let mine get that hot :).