[Zogthetroll]

well, the motherboard is a DFI (diamond flower international, i think) AK75-EC. i'm not sure if there's an updated bios for that or not. I had considered the cooling because i did relocate it to a computer desk, but the cpu temp only reads around 44c atm. I'm running firebird, winamp, and bunch of random little stuff, i ran sandra's burn wizard and got it up to 50c. and it still idles under 40c and overall is only a few deg higher than when it was in open air, so i dunno. unfortunately i don't have a spare stick of ram to test with (that's what i'd like to do), but if it is the ram, i'd seriously consider replacing the motherboard, i've got a stick of 256DDR lying around. the motherboard only runs 133 bus (it sucks)