Temps topping 75C! Help!

[Sleestax]

I am looking for suggestions from people on how to bring my temp down. At the moment, my temps run steady at 69C and go as high as 75C when the CPU is being used heavily. Here are my specs:

Asus A7V133 mobo (133) (has a fan built on the chipset)
AMD T-Bird 1.0 266FSB
768mb Cruical PC133 RAM
Asus V7700 GF2 32MB
20gb WestDig ATA/100
20gb Maxtor ATA/100
Generic 44X CD-ROM
Yamaha 6X CD-RW
SB Live Value
400w Leadman Power Supply
Generic crappy Orb-style Heatsink (Replacing it tomorrow with a Thermosonic Thermoengine w/ Delta thanks to Anandtech review)

Case is a generic Mid-tower with two fans. One below the HD set to blow air into the case and one mounted on the rear just under the PowerSupply that blows air out of the case.

I am one step away from putting my CPU in a meat freezer. Can anyone please suggest ways to bring temps down?

 

[dieselstation]

i stuck a fan i took out of an old powersupply, and hooked it up so it blows air directly onto my cpu heatsink. so now i have a regular heatsink with the fan on top, and ALSO another fant blowing air from the back of the cdrom drives, across my cpu heatsink, and out the back of the case. hope that makes sense? anyways. i went from 60 celsius idle temp to 30 celsius idle.. and under full load, im at 45 celcius. i'll see about posting a picture as soon as i get it.

 

[poncekim]

I don't know if this is an option for you, but I simply opened up my case. I don't care about aesthetics and didn't want to invest $$$ on all these fans, and super coolers. I'm running at 40- 45C idle with zero fans and retail HSF on my 1.2 TB. When I need a little airflow on a hot day or decide i need a little more juice, I turn on my little portable fan aimed at my CPU. Temp drops to 37 idle. I guess this is the poorman's solution.

 

[Sleestax]

I can't really run with an open case. I have cats in the house. I may have to give the fan in the open case slot a try. I have also been emailed by someone who suggested I create a "blow-hole" out of the top of my case by cutting out the necessary opening and mounting a fan to suck the air out of the top. That makes sense since heat rises.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, anyone else have one?

 

[tweakmm]

LOL, that would suck for your cats....
anyway, look here My other responses
The basic jist of it is, you need to create good air flow. Also, I think that getting a new HSF would help tremendously. I hope that you are skilled in mounting HSFs because the thermoengine is a b*tch to mount, the clips are like iron. I've heard good things about the taisol's if you haven't gotten the thermoengine already.

 

[Joeschmoe]

I set up my enlight 7237 with the stock 80 blowing in in the front and another 92 mm Sunon fan in the rear blowing onto the CPU/HSF. I then put a 120 mm exhaust on the top. That way I blow cold (ambient) air directly onto the HSF and the rising hot air from the HSF gets sucked right out. I also put a 92 mm fan from an old IBM PS/2 PS on the side blowing in on my cards, but I don't believe that affects the CPU too much. I am able to run at CPU temp of 46 under load overclocked with a room temp of 20 and a case temp of 22. Loud though. It could be you will find the thermoengine to be adequate though without the hacking on the case. But you have GOT to bring those temps down. My temps went down a lot when I ditched the orb.
--James