I installed an Athlon 1.33 the other night and currently have it running at 9.5 * 150 allow (1425 Mhz) allowing my DDR Ram to run at 300 Mhz which seems to give me the best benchmark scores vs a higher clock speed at a lower FSB rate. Anyway given that the Athlons run a tad on the warm side I decided to do a little case modification this afternoon and proceeded to move the front air intake fan to a new location. I also added two more case fans to the side of the case all blowing air into the case. There's still the fan near the CPU blowing air out as well as the fan in the power supply so in total I now have 3 large fans sucking in air and two blowing air out. (also 5200 RPM fan on Themal Engine CPU cooler and a small fan on northbridge chip) The effect of all these fans seems to work rather well. My case temp has plumeted to a cool temp which helps to keep the video card and RAM cooler (two fans blowing onto video card and one onto CPU) as well the max temp isn't much higher then idle (44C at idle vs 48C at max)
Here's a pic of the new fans
Here's a pic of the new fans
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