With the USA heat wave the upstairs computer area becomes somewhat warm. Ok for me (electric bill rationale) but running FS2004 brings the CPU temperature up to 67C. So, I probably need a better case. CPU is an AMD 2400 with a thunder bird heat sink/fan. There is a single front case fan and a fan in the Enermax 400w supply. Video is Radeon 9600. A Turtle Beach sound card is the only other "extra" along with three disk drives.I have to run the case without the cover to even get 67C on the CPU. Otherwise it climbs to 70C where I kill the program to prevent CPU failure. The CPU heat conductor to the sink is a "high end" grease.Thanks - Dick near 5G8

Assuming your still using the stock fan that came with the CPU. You could get a nice Zalman all copper cooler, ranging between 30 to about 50USD.. excelent coolers. Unless you have a minitower try upgrading the CPU cooler that in most cases does the trick as long as besides that, a decent airflow is created by the surrounding fans. You might want to see if you can mount some additional fans in your current case. I make out as to what you wrote you only have one fan in the front (not taking the PSU) you are in that case missing an outtake airflow.. mount one in the back and one on top both sucking the heat out.

Perhaps, since I keep the case open, I will spend $10.00 at the local junk store (Dollar General) and try one of their small floor fans to really hit it with some airflow until I get a case with someplace to mount more fans. This case is about 7 years old and would require major surgery to add fans. Dick near airfield 5G8