Cooling sifoos....pls help...

Ive just got my new system housed in a Centurion 5...quited pleased with it except for the relatively warm temperatures on stock cooling. The amd 3200 cpu is kinda ok, idling/loading at 38/44 like that...which i suppose is acceptable. BUT:

1) the 7900gt idles at 54, and can go up to 75 when playing oblivion or doing 3dmark05. i think this is hotter than many ppl would like it...
2) got 2 HDDs, according to smartfan, HDD#1 a 200gb sata is usually at 60(!), with the little fire icon next to it haha (whereas HDD#2 120gb pata normally at 30)

should i be worried with either 1) or 2)?

im looking to improve the airflow in the case as cheap as possible, will replacing the stock 8cm intake and 12cm exhaust fans improve the temps? or shall i add more/better fans in the case? i think the cabling kinda sucky too...might do something about it.

how about hard disk cooler..i saw one here selling for 7 bux, will this work?

if a pic of my case helps i will post it tonite...thx for any help!!

no one can help ah...

man im jeles...makes me wonder whether im living in the sahara or not. come to think of it, my room temperature kinda hot...really cant tahan spending time in the room during the day, cos i'll sweat like mad and stuffy also. but at nite, its ok...but since i spend most of my time at nite, kinda makes me wonder too about the case temp...

got a question, u have both your HDD directly next to each other in the 3.5 bays? i got mine separated, cos i thought it'd be cooler. the 8cm fan, like no power only.

could it be a defective thermal sensor on the HDD?? maybe i'll take it out and see if the temp changes...

thx for the tips..i'll go home later and take it out cos i read somewhere 60 is kinda high for HDD...dun want no corrupted/fried HDD haha. if got chance, i'll post up the case pic, let u all kutuk abit lol

oi mavik...long time no see. u got experience with those hdd cooler before? kinda hard to believe they're so cheap, sure got catch wan!?

yeah i actually posted in that forum quite some time ago...forgotten to follow up. but thx anyway.

my WD sata is actually noticeably warmer than the other WD pata...which can probably be confirmed in speedfan after offsetting 20 degrees from the sata considering the firmware bug...

but can anyone confirm sata normally runs hotter than pata?

yeah they're making quite some noise in the support forum..maybe we should do it here too to pressure WD??

because some of the ppl contend that the reason why WD sorta keeping mum about this is because not many ppl are complaining, either they dun realize the problem or simply not bothered. and obvoiusly it'd be bad PR for WD if they have to recall hundreds if not thousands of defective harddisks plagued with the socalled firmware bug. so now WD is telling ppl (including me) that 'our team is working on the issue bla bla' but didnt give any possible solutions nor the ETA.

so if your temp reading is always anywhere in the high 50s and 60s, u oughta make noise because the max operational temp for hard disks is 55 degrees, thats what i recall but u can simply check on the WD site. seems that hard disks are really sensitive to heat, so if indeed your harddisk is really running at 60, be prepared for armageddon!

mine's reading 60 on average, but didnt feel that hot. WD will tell u "as long as it doenst feel too hot to the touch, it should be alright, just run the few diagnostic tests and if everything OK u have no problem". i think thats bollocks, a faulty temp reading IS a problem!!

i cant foresee any possible solution save for RMA-ing it, as WD is not known to release firmware updates on their harddisk, regardless of whether its even possible to fix the problem with a firmware update. then again, i read somewhere that someone still had the same problem even after RMA-ing the harddisk. yeah, a big WTF.

no more WD for me in future...in the mean time im hoping and praying my current WD dun die and fry on me...

wat!? pls read my rambling above...

its got nothing to do with case ventilation/cooling....the fact is the firmware is buggy, its already been acknowledged by WD support.