This last Saturday night I spent about 3 hours or more rerouting all my cabling and wiring in my tower, most of that was spent trying to figure out how to do it. Needless to say, the interior is much cleaner now and has much better air flow.

I had an idea that Sunday morning, after having read several reviews regarding the testing of air cooled cpu heatsinks, I noticed they all had one thing in common, a controlled environment. It didn't matter what the ambient temperature was, most...

I had ended up reflashing my BIOS back to rev 1103, everything appeared to be stable and normal once again. With BIOS rev 1202, every time I did a cold boot, the POST screen would say that the OC had failed, press F1 to... and I would have to reload the settings I had last time I started up, TO MUCH EFFORT to do that EVERY TIME I start my computer.

Somebody had suggested that I up the CPU voltage to see if that would stabilize things, of course I read this after I reflashed to 1103....

I had gotten done installing the last WD hdd (planning on RAID-0 eventually), the last 2 SilenX 120mm fans, and a Zalman 6-fan controller, zero noticeable effect on the overall temperature. Oh well, plenty of air flowing now so I have little to worry about when it comes to cool air for my system. Best part is, even though my tower is louder, the only noise that I do hear isn't from the fans but from the air they're moving .

I downloaded and update the motherboard bios from 1103...

I had been reading more articles on various websites and came to the realization that perhaps the more important temperature to follow is the difference between the ambient and CPU temperatures verses the absolute CPU temperature. As of right now that difference is ~13-15C at idle, which appears to be the norm.

At that time, I had been looking at purchasing 2 SilenX 120x120x25mm IPX-74-14 fans to replace the 2 CoolerMaster R4-S2S-12AK-GP fans, this would increase inlet airflow from...

Alrighty then, I had completed the lapping (2 hours of work) and I could see my reflection in the now mirror like copper surfaces, especially after using the Final Polish Compound. I must say that I don't think I did that bad of a job considering it was my first time lapping a CPU cooler of any kind. Even though the coarse kit was included in my purchase, it wasn't need it since the surface wasn't that rough to start with.

Anyways, to the point, idle temperatures appeared to have...