Hey guys, am quite a n00b to cooling.
It's an old pc, but i had to change the mobo and casing.

it's now a medium tower casing running the following :

P4 2.0Ghz
2x 512mb DDR Ram
40gb 5400 RPM HDD
250gb 7200 RPM HDD
Samsung CD-RW
ASUS DVD-ROM
128mb Radeon 5200 GPU
5.1 Creative Live! Sound Card
6 USB ports all used up
Silverstone Strider ST400 400W PSU

All i can say is that everything is overheating , especially my 250gb HDD

The casing only has 2 grills for fans - rear and left side
i'm planning to get two 92mm fans , but i'm not sure which air flow i should do.

Hope someone can help me out

it has the caging for a 120mm, BUT the exterior of the case has no holes except the usb port and multimedia ports in the bottom front of the casing.

i only have side and rear
i was actually thinking of side for outake :shy:

hey guys, i'm running a Intel P4 2.0 Ghz on socket 478, i was wondering if i wanted to change cpu coolers, what would be a good recommendation?

Hey guys, using speedfan - was wondering what does
temp 1, temp2 and temp3 refer to exactly?

anyone can help me about speedfan's categories of temp1,temp2 and temp3?

you will need to buy a fan that's compatible with your socket 775, that's all

when you go to a store, (i recommend ALL IT Hypermarket) at LowYat floor 3, just tell them you have a socket 775 processor and you want to get a new Heat Sink Fan (HSF) and tell them you want a quiet one, and then they'll teach u there and then

guys, what about a Socket 478 HSF that would be silent and efficient?

currently using Volcano 7+ , it tends to get a bit noisy :s

Styloe - i was thinking of the xp120 or the zalman 9500
which would be better?

aka 1) which would be more silent whilst still be efficient?

Ok the thing is that my socket 478 mobo is not one of those high tech ones

it's a MSI PM8M-V , with chipset VIA P4M800

the xp120 looks quite huge.. :s
also, which of the two (zalman 9500, xp120) does NOT require external brackets? meaning i can just use the stock intel bracket without having to take out my mobo to install additional brackets for my mobo?