Okay, the hard drives fixed, the proccessors fixed, and the memory is as good as its going to get.

Now to address the issue with the power supply that i've been ignoring. Now my current PSU overheats if I leave the side pannel of the system case on, so I permanently just leave it off. Now that all the other 'forseen' isues have been fixed this is going to be a problem because I won't NEED to rumage around inside the pc all the time.

Anyway the problem is that the fan blows out of the PSU so it sucks air through the back of the PSU. However there is a slight draw back to this plan. The PSU has a mesh case design so that the air is not being forced through. My solution idea is to just turn the fan around in the PSU so that it blows air into the PSU (which seem morer sensible for a mesh case design to me). Anyone else have any thoughts or other ideas on how to solve the problem?

Does anyone remember when you COULD buy good quality pc parts that worked correctly at purchase and stayed that way for years?

The best Machine I have ever had is an Intel Pentium 2 266Mhz with 32Mbs or RAM and a 16Mb Voodoo 3 Graphics card (oh and its 3Gb HDD). Outdated it may be, Robust it deffinatly is. All components still work to this day (including the PSU).You most likely do not want to turn the fan around in the psu. It was set that way by the manufacturer because that is the best position/direction for it. let's take a LOOK at other options first.

what kind of case do you have? What kind of psu? how many fans are installed in your system? can you PROVIDE links and/or pictures of everything?
below is a pic of how a comp should be ventilated. take note that not all comp cases have that many fans or a side vent. the idea is to keep the air flowing in the same direction, with cold air coming from the front and hot air exhausting out the back. if any fans go against the air flow they are actually making the case hotter.



[recovering space - attachment deleted by admin]PSU: Hiper 630W HPU-4M630-PE 85% Efficiency.
Case : No idea some old cheap thing.
Fans: CPU, GPU & PSU. (why do we add unit on the end of everything?)

I'm trying to keep things quite and besides that my old case fan broke. Well sort of, it came of its bearings and made a horrible irritating noise. The actual truth is that I need to get a new case but i've been put off buying one from online. I had old dell xps, 950mhz with 512 mb of ram and it's running well still and nothing's broken. The xps was manufactured back in 1999.

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I would be sure you have adequate ventilation for computer so that the your parts are nice and cool and there's less stress on the parts.

After installing 2 extra fans (one 120mm the other 80mm) and installing them in a fashion that streamlined airflow from the front of the case to the back, the PC overheated...

I now have the same fans in a none logical format of the large fan exausting at the rear of the case and the smaller fan blowing onto the PSU & CPU. It's not overheated yet but it does have an uncomfortable idle temperature of 44 degrees C and the CPU ~50 degrees C.

I know everyone says don't mod the PSU but this is ridiculous.Bump, any more suggestions?

(Is bumping allowed?)