Mike or others,
I wonder if anybody has experimented with an indoor/outdoor thermometer
such as you would use for your home. Putting the "outside" probe at the
desired location inside the case may help troubleshooting and evaluating
things such as fan arrangements.

At 5/8/02, you wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Whalen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 11:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Troubleshooting overheat matters...
>
> > Incidentally, I turned the fan around last night so it blew air off the
>core
> > instead of at it. The system still became unstable, but it didn't seem to
> > reach that point so quickly.
> > There is no doubt in my mind that one of the problems is airflow. There is
>a
> > dead-zone in the case toward the upper-front. The air the fans push
>through
> > the case would never reach the CD drives, the RAM, the CPU, or the HDD.
> > Incidentally, this is where all the wires are as well.