"Jason Cothran" wrote in message
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If you are running cool enough with the sides off and overheating that
badly
with the sides on, it is obviously just a case of poor case cooling.


Whats the ambient temp within the case when powered up....again if thats hot
then the cpu will be that plus more...the turbo setting is in the BIOS - can
not remeber where abouts look later. I spoke with AMD ref this issue -
basically on my rig if turbo was on the VDD shot up to 1.75 volts and
combine that with qfan and all temps rocketed! It sounds though as the
others have pointed out, your case needs more efficient air flow - it's not
expensive to set up more fans. Come back on your room temps etc - if yur
room is 30c then your air cooling efficiency goes down.