well, its a crappy case I bought when I built my first system, and atm the cover is not on so everything is out in the open. Hopefully I should get my new case in by mid next week so I can see if that helps. I have artic silver ceramique on the die, and I would think my heatsink and fan should be enough to do the job.......I dunno why it should be running that hot compaired to other peoples barton 2500......