***seagate Barracuda 500gb High Temp Resolution?***

I recently installed everest to monitor the internal temp of my components after 2 WD 500 GB harddrives burned out on me. I noticed the temps were crazy hot on the graphics card and one harddisk in particular. so I went and got the Antec 900 case, installed all the optional fans and turned them all to high to see the differences. I live in Hawaii, so I don't have a/c. the avg room day temp is approx ~80F day, and 65~75F night. While my graphics card is still showing high temps, my main concern is that my new Seagate Barracuda 500GB drive is getting waaay to hot. Idle temps day are around 55~58C day, and 50~55C night. These temps are after one hour of power up, and no activity on system. Can anyone tell me why after all these fans in my unit are blowing on this thing, that it's temperature is still nearing its operational limits while sitting idle?

My other internal components are:
mobo: ECS 570 SLIT-A
cpu: DualCore Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (not overclocked)
graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT
hds: Maxtor 300GB | Maxtor 120 GB | Seagate Barracuda 500GB | Seagate Freeagent Pro 750GB (ext)
o/s: Vista SP1

Also, I've tried shifting the hd's to different positions in hd bay, but temps are still consistent. the 2 Maxtor's are approx 30~35C on avg.

O/S on Maxtor 300gb. Other Maxtor and Seagate hds are for data storage.

Mahalo in advance to all!

 

Welcome to MajorGeeks!

Those hard drives seem a bit too toasty! One thing I would try is remove the side of the case and let a house fan blow into it. If the stuff runs cooler, you have an airflow problem. If it does not, I would try to verify the HD and video card temps.

You can get inexpensive aftermarket video card coolers that work much better than most stock coolers.

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