Is anyone using the Silverstone NT-06 Lite heatsink in their SG-01? I'm wondering if are comfortable with temps.

I have the NT-06 Lite mounted in my SG-01 with a Silverstone PSU ontop, and it's so flush that I can't put a fan on the NT-06 Lite. Right now am using it on a E8200 (stock, no OCing), and speedfan reports idle temps around 48C (BIOS says around 37-38C, which should I believe?).

I have 3x 80mm CM silent fans on the 3 fan positions for the SG-01, with a PCI slot blower fan sucking hot air from the onboard GPU and out the back, since I was worried about overheating (speedfan reports GPU temps around 78-80C, but I dont know if accurate).

Later I will post pics of the setup so you can see what I mean, now in the office

Hah, wanted to post pic but my PC crashed and died. Lucky I saved all my data on HDs and partitions other than the OS partition. Looks like a reformat/install is in order for my main rig. In any case, perhaps my temps aren't so way off then based on your comments. I am running a fanless cooling on the CPU (although the PSU fan is sucking air from the heatsink, the fan is not that powerful).

I just worry if the GPU or CPU can take it when I start loading them. Anyone else experience burning hot onboard GPUs? My mobo is the Asus P5N7A-VM (I think... I always mix up Asus mobo numbers; its the one with nvidia chipset). While installing OS via the optical drive (my completed casing has no optical drives), I had the case open, and used a 80mm fan blowing at the CPU/GPU to keep things cool. Now after closing the casing, I added the slot blower fan to suck air from GPU out the back, and I can feel the air is warm. Problem is the fan is a little noisier than I like. I have another quieter slot blower fan but it moves a lot less air. I am just worried about the GPU overheating.

I have the P5N7A-VM mobo in a SG01 casing. The GPU runs very hot >70C when idle. What I did was to stick on a 60mm Sunon fan (controlled by a Zalman Fanmate) directly on top of the heatsink. At full fan speed, temps go down to about 48C when idle, but fan is a bit noisy, so I usually reduce speed till I get temps just under 60C. This is one of the reasons I am switching my HTPC build from this mobo/SFF casing to a ATX desktop HTPC casing without integrated graphics but much better airflow. With additional cards (TV-Tuner, Sound card, etc) a SFF casing has relatively poor airflow and temps get a bit too warm for my liking.

I have a E8200 with the P5N7A-VM motherboard in the SG-01 casing. My CPU heatsink is the NT-06. Normally this setup is a fanless setup, using the PSU's fan to suck air out from the NT-06 and out the back - the location of the PSU fan is right above the NT-06, almost touching.

Under full-load conditions (folding 24/7) the CPU will step down to 6x (I enabled this feature as I was worried about overheating), and at speed (2.0GHz) the core temps are around 60-65C. My concerns over this relatively high-temps led me to jury-rig a low-profile 80mm high-speed delta fan undernearth the heatsink blowing up through the fins and into the PSU. Having it blowing full-blast I can lower the CPU temps by about 3-6C, but the Delta fan has a relatively high-pitched whine which is very annoying, so I usually leave it off.

I have since decided to switch to another motherboard (ATX) in a larger casing (desktop) to allow me to run my CPU full speed (or even OC it a bit) without running extremely high temps.

Yeah the combination of the very hot GPU/chipset + hot CPU + my desire to fit in more HDDs let me to decide to move to a larger form factor. I still like the SFF form factor though, I have 3 mATX mobos, so I may still put together another rig with these parts, but not as a HTPC, so I can eliminate the high-end sound card and TV tuner, and only use one HDD, so it may run cooler.

I like the Enermax Twister Magma - 69cfm but still quiet. The CM "90cfm" fan is pretty decent though I hear CM LEDs tend to die early. Also the Xigmatek fans are pretty good (white LEDs). All relatively easy to find in LYP. For quiet fans, I usually just use the bunch of CM "silent" or LED fans that I get bundled with CM casings.. have a whole lot of them.