Cooling

Hi Guys/Girls,

I run a AMD 3300 64 bit with a 128Mb Video Card 2 Gb of Ram and 2 hard SATA HArd drives. Should I be concerned about better cooling that what came factory?? (1 HD 512Mb Ram) I use Photoshop and Illustrator all day along with running an apache server for development purposes.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks!!

 

What cooling solutions do you currently have?
Case fans are a good start, and a brand named cpu cooler such as Zalman or Akasa work well in reducing heat.

 

As macadam says, case fans can make a BIG difference. It'd be a good idea to have at least two case fans, at opposite sides of the case, one blowing air in, one out. There should be fixing positions on the inside of the case for them.
If you're worried about it, you could always download a program such as Motherbard Monitor 5, which will hopefully be able to tell you what sort of temperatures you're at. I believe you can download it from this site.
Generally speaking the cooler it runs, the better!

 

Tell us about your case, fans, direction of airflow tobetter understand your situation.