I've heard of reversing the panels on the Three Hundred, but I've never heard of anyone cooling the backside of a CPU socket. If it's making 140W on the front, I would imagine a little of that heat might be coming out the back? I've pulled down old overclocker's motherboards where the white cpu sock...

I've built many PC's, but getting them really quiet always took a back seat to time, effort, money, and performance. After a few unsettling experiences with noisy builds, I decided this next system would be quiet from the start. The goal is to allow core unlocking and moderate overclocking, and futu...

With an ambient temperature of 75* F, my CPU idles at 37*C and GPU core runs at 50*C. My HDD stays between 27*C and 28*C even while I'm gaming. While gaming for hours, with everything maxed, incl. AA, the GPUs can hit peaks of 105*C without any artifacts nor other gaming issues. The rear bottom int...