Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell

Give us a link to the case you are using, that can have a ton to do with the exhaust through the back, out the side and the inflow from the front - depending on where fans are and what kind of fan they are. Picking a CPU cooler has a lot to do with case design, for sure. Although, I am surprised that a core 2 duo cpu is running that hot - they use less energy than the Pentium Dual Cores and the older hyperthreaded processors.

Brad