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patrickl:
It depends very much on the components. I have several PC's with an unventilated CPU and hard disks that will melt if not cooled by a fan. Components like that  both depend on the forced airflow through the case to remain cooled.

Not to nitpick over examples, but indeed the "closet" example could be misinterpreted. It's more like cooling a cup of soup by leaving it standing in a room or blowing air over it. (Or maybe having 4 cups of soup and one fan where a confined space would help) Anyway, it always depends if the soup is too hot to begin with. With PC components as with soup, you better make damn sure it's never too hot.

big_garryb:
Is there a program or something i can use to monitor the heat of the system? i use windows XP and thought it was a standard program thingy...........  but cant find it

gb

big_garryb:
just had a look on cnet and found this: http://download.com.com/3000-2086-10164029.html?tag=lst-0-3

it is a temp monitor....and free.. aint tried it yet!

also read somewhere that it i buy a decent fan, that give the facility to check the temp..... is this right?

gb

big_garryb:
Just read the user opinions on cnet for the above program.............. most of them are bad, so please disregard the link above. program looks crap - i aont even gonna bother trying it!

gb

DaveJ-UK:
Look on the disk that came with your mobo.

If you don't have the disk, go to the manufacturers website and check the downloads section for your model.

There are a few third party ones like I guess you found. I think Intel make a pretty good temp monitor but I've never used any.

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