Mike Raiford wrote:


> 
> CRAP.

Oh, that's pretty sweet. :-D

> Wonder what would change if I ran the case open. I lose the fan in the 
> case side, but maybe it'll give me adequate ventilation.

I'm told this tends to screw up the ventilation rather than help it. YMMV.

You might try taking a can of compressed air to it and just trying to 
blow some dust out of it. (The PSU in particular tends to trap that 
stuff very efficiently...)

> If I can just keep this thing from driving me bonkers (or possibly 
> failing due to thermal stress) until I build the new one (BTW, I think 
> I'm going to start with 4GB of DDR3 instead of 2GB... Might as 
> well....Memory is cheap)

Indeed.

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