computer cooling advice

[bm]

After discovering that my graphics card was running at 72c after light internet browsing i've decided i'll have to do something about it!

I can't believe it really. We bought an expensive computer from Demonite so we wouldn't have any of this kind of hassle but it couldn't have been worse!

A. Instead of the stated 10-15 days to come it took about a month and a half for them even to think about delivering it. (A fault with windows - my arse!)

B. Some of the stuff didn't come! Including one of the 120gb hard drives, 6in1 card reader and 5x blank DVD's.

C. I couldn't work out how to open the damn case to see if the hard drive was in there (possibly no fault of theirs but annoying anyway!). So when the chap came a week later to install a hard drive we found it in there but the "system engineer" thought there should be another cable into it so couldn't install it. Anyway I worked out how to do it later that day. I think I may have done what you call 'Formatting'. Anyway thank partition magic. It must have been these new SATA drives that confused him - I've never even installed a normal one before so it was all new to me!

Anyway rant over! Other then that everything is excellent, which is why its a shame they have messed up on some of the important things. But lack of cooling in a high performance PC is rediculous!

Below are a few pictures of the case - any suggestions for improving the cooling? Obviously put a fan in the back 92mm fan mount but I'll be getting Demonite to do that Im planning on getting a window panel for the case and modding it so I can mount a couple of 120mm intake fans on the side, any idea's where they should be put?

[bm]

Sorry - Here are my specs:

Processor: Pentium 4c 3.2Ghz 800fsb
Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe
RAM: 1Gb Corsair DDR-XMS PC-3700
Graphics: ATi Radeon 9800XT 256Mb

[congo]

You could pull those covers off the slots for ventilation. Particularly both sides of the AGP slot.

An intake fan over the AGP slot would be nice, another one there beside the cpu as you planned, (this could even have a duct built onto it to force air onto the CPU fan). The problem with the Fan near the CPU is that the intake is blocked by all that case metal, (those little holes!!!), consider trimming it away and installing a guard like the PSU fan.

Ideally an exhaust fan out the top, but this would endanger the PC if a spill (coffee, etc.) were to occur.

Those SATA drives are probably quite warm in there, don't be afraid to leave the cover off in hot weather if the computer is secure and safe from children.