Well, the cpu is 125 watt, so I would not worry there. Only if it was to small. Kinda funny sidebar, Asus boasts that board as a fanless design, and your having heat issues. Gotta be the case, try the THERMAL TAKE, IE, THERMAL, .

One and the same.....as CPU temps rise, the cpu fan increases in speed.....120F is somewhat on the hot side, the cpu fan is most likely running full tilt.....on that size fan most likely 2500+/-  rpm

That's like comparing apples to oranges......the Pen4 wasn't a quad core 125 watt processor and didn't draw any where near the amount of current/wattage.

Well within specs. Get used to higher powered PSU's and CPU's and even that little gfx card that need those fans to stay alive. I've worked on many old rigs with only a single fan on the PSU, period and even more with that and a tiny CPU fan.  Passive cooling is a thing of the past.

I have 7 fans running on my rig.  PSU-2, CPU-1, GFX-1, case-3. Only the 80mm front fan (a Rosewill replacement) came with a speed controller and it was on sale for 5 bucks at Newegg. It's when they stop making noise that I'll worry.

One of my hobbies is building speed machines - as in Desktop Computers. The one I'm using right now has 12 fans and a water cooling radiator system to cool the CPU. This machine presently is benchmarking within the top 16 systems globally. I'm working on another build right now, I would love to benchmark to within at least 5 of the top machines globally. It can be a very expensive endeavor, so sometimes it takes me forever to get the parts I need, but it's always worth it once you fire it up and start burning up the charts in the benchmark categories. I've never had issues with noise, despite the numerous fans I always use, but I would say that a noisy fan is not good. That's usually an indication that the bearings are seriously worn and their efficiency is plummeting. Not good for the related hardware. You can never have too many fans. Heat should always be your number one concern, just as the oil level is in your automobile. It's a hidden killer stalking you everytime you boot-up.               -- Ace --

I don't have enough fans to plug up all of the fan holes cut in the side of the Thermaltake case. There are many fans missing and the front has missing plates that cover vacant DVD-RW drives. I think that would let in to much dust, would it not?Currently the CPU is sitting at 91F in this case, not bad I guess. I will look into it. I think investing in more fans, better, silent ones would be what I need to do. This generic case is setup to handle 6 120mm or 6 80mm fans, 2 in the front, two on the side, one on the bottom, one in the rear. I think airflow will not be an issue. As for the Thermaltake case I was going to use it with another project if that's OK.

I found that the 120mm front fan is the loudest of the bunch. So I going to replace it it with something quieter. The CPU fan is always at full speed as far as I know. It is pretty loud.The PSU fan is really loud as well.

I was playing with Windows 8 in Virtualbox last night. Anyone care to tell me how Windows 8 went online and grabbed my Facebook pictures to browse through when the email I used with Windows 8 is not connected to my Facebook account in any way? That's kind of disturbing to think Windows is hacking into my Facebook account.

Ace you mentioned your machine is in the top 16 machines globally for benchmarking. Very impressive. Thank you for all you have done for me, I greatly appreciate it.

By the way did you ever notice a long lag between the time you powered on the system till the time the system would post? It seems there is a lag of almost a minute there. Windows 7 has been slow to boot as well. Used to be fast, then I installed SP1 and boot times slowed down to over two minutes.

Hey DoorTech you said something about fans? What did you have?

As always thank you everyone. This machine is far more than I expected to be using when I first started this thread. It's a blessing, and I am very grateful.

Ace, when you get a few extra speed machines laying around, and they're in the way, don't forget your old buddy, the redneck. Feel free to send me one of you slower ones.....hehe....

I'll settle for top 50. 

I'll settle for a turtle. It'll probably leave my lappy in the dust.

That's a panel beater's job... get out the rubber mallet, somebody... in the trade, and knock that friggin' dent out for kona.

Seriously, my sister had an old tower years ago that had some missing front panels, and what she did was cut out some plastic facsimilies from an ice cream container and taped them in place with some tape from the inside.  It didn't look too bad for an improvised solution, neither.. and it kept the dust out/noise in.

As for the dent, get a block of wood and a hammer, turn the case upside down [before you put anything in it] and panel beat the dent out, using the wood in between so as not to leave hammer blows... then if you get a ROM drive it'll slip right in there.  Just a thought, cos the Thermaltake case would be better for airflow and cooling, etc.

An added note here: If there are some that are not aware of it, using a vacuum to clean your system is very dangerous. A vacuum creates static electricity because of the extreme air flow created across surfaces. You should never , ever, use a vacuum near your tower.           -- Ace --

Someone got an answer on this one? I think it's creepy.

I doubt that theory very much Doortech since this was on a fresh install of Windows 8 and I had not gone to Facebook yet. None of my pictures were on the hard drive Windows 8 was loaded on nor did it ave access to any pictures on my other hard drive.

Could it be that your Administrator name and the one you use on Facebook are the same. Maybe the OS did a search through favorites or something like that and browsed them like an organizer would. Mine is just a guess too. Otherwise no clue.

Yeah I haven't used the Facebook app yet and I certainly did NOT enter my credentials to log on to Facebook. My Facebook was setup using my Gmail account and I haven't entered my Gmail account info anywhere within Windows 8.