Well, I found part of my problem. I'm down 1C after replacing the PSU. It was overheating right next to my rad (and probably causing my rad fans to run at lower speeds as well). I went from a 350W generic (never buy ANYTHING from ElitePC of Texas ... out of an entire system I bought for cheap on UBid less than a year ago, only the hard drive and one 80mm fan is still working, and the HDD has issues) to an Antec TruePower 480W. Much quieter.
Funny story how that happened, actually. I woke up Sunday morning to my wife crying and saying she broke my machine (visions of XP keychains danced in my head) and I had to wake up. I ran into the "server farm" to this godawful reek and a bit of smoke, and she said this big flash of light came from the back of the computer and it couldn't turn on again. After removing the PSU I opened it and every cap in it was blown. Needless to say, I was a bit nervous when I plugged in the new PSU, cos I didn't know if it took anything else with it ... I got lucky.
And I don't think I'm ever going to be able to push the FSB much, now. I just threw another 256MB DDR into my machine next to my 256MB PNY PC2100 ... it's KByte PC2100, so if I can hit 140, I'll be jumping for joy. I was just sick of the memory lag (when PCAlert3 shows only 15MB ram free, you know you're screwed, damn WinXP).
When I say pump to (anything), I mean outlet of pump to (anything).
So, I'm now 46-49C (51C under extreme load). I'm supposed to get to triple digit ambents (F) this week, so I guess I'll see how well it holds up.
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