Temps - what do you think?

[BWulf]

Hey everyone - been following the posts in this forum for the past 6 months..finally getting around to say hello and talk abit about water cooling.
My first foray into water cooling I went with an Innovatek water kit. At the time I felt more comfortable with a kit solution as opposed to piecing it out. After the install I found my temps were around a 43c... still seems high to me, and noise level is about the same from air cooling because I still have to run a fan for the radiator. Not a whole lot gained going from air to water.
I thought perhaps the waterblock may not be installed tight enough...but I've traded out my cpu for another since then and temps are the same. I removed the resevoir that came with the kit, T-fitting instead. I went ahead and upgraded to 1/2' barbs on the waterblock, replaced the 1046 pump with the L30 Hydor and tygon 1/2" id tubing. Temps, still about the same...when I start gaming they can jump right up to 48-50c. So, what next ... I'm looking at a change on the rad to a BIX or Dteks core radiator with shroud, do you think that will get my temps down some? I've looked at the new waterblock, the white water ... hard to come by. Will a different waterblock make a difference here. The case itself is good size, airflow isn't a problem, pulling in air thru the front bottom, across the rad. Guess I'm looking for suggestions that may help with getting my temps down some more (and possibly reducing noise level).

[Sproket]

Do you have any pics and what are you clocking your CPU and memory at?

[BWulf]

Running an AMD 2200+ cpu, no overclocking. Case is an old Addtronics 6890, 120mm blowhole top and front. The pic shows my T-fitting hanging wrong, corrected that. The Hydor L30 pump was making noise, sounded like a harddrive thrashing itself. Anyway, took it apart, glued impeller to shaft..now it doesn't work at all!! Reinstalled the Eheim 1046 pump, low flow rate but very quiet. Temps are about 44C cpu, 32C system as read from the motherboard software. Doesn't take much to start pushing the cpu with a little gaming and I'm right up to the 50-52C mark tho.