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The case I bought a long time ago and can't seem to figure out what it is. Its a smaller mid tower case known as Thermaltake Black edition V1 (from what I remember), a cheap case that was about 40$ cdn. I've been tinkering with this setup for last few days after work (been working a lot) so common s...

The reason why I placed it in an improper way was because the intel board i'm using (for some reason), has the ram slots directly beside the CPU. So when I reverse the heatsink direction, the fan collides with the ram. The only way for the heatsink to work is to have the fan (thats part of the heats...

Ah, I thought you meant the temperature within the case. The room is often 18c, its the living room and is never hot or cold. I'm guessing that the heatsink should produce a better temperature, so it maybe up to the fans inside the case. Right now the heatsink is placed in the upper back part of the...

I'm not sure how to keep track of ambient. I've used hwmonitor in the past and used the program speccy to get the current cpu temperature. Is there a good freeware utility for ambient temperatures?

I've done a little searching and haven't found much on this problem. I have an i5 2500 and have been using an ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 aftermarket cpu cooler. I've applied Artic Silver 5 (proper amount, only enough to make contact). I have applied thermal paste quite a few times and its wo...