Hello The Duck,

I've had a similar experience with one of my boxes. I tried changing the thermal paste, then adding a case fan to the back, even changing the heatsink and fan. You already are in the right direction for trying to cool it down a few degrees. As far as software temp programs go I don't trust them mainly because most of the boxes I've used that had it installed for one or on the BIOS don't tell you the truth they do guess at it. Usually you can go get a cheap temp probes you know like the ones that have a lcd display and a wire with a temp probe on the end of it, and use it to tell you the temp on your system. Also before you go and buy anything else goto www.crazypc.com and take a look at their cooling products its a whole lot more than what Tigerdirect carrys. Most of those techs to count think 99.98% of the time that you don't use your pc for a very long period of time. Keeping you rig in the coolest room of the house helps along with a fan going will keep you from sweating to death while your trying to play it. Something that you might want to try is if you have a extra hole for a 120mm fan and its just holes try taping a piece of cardboard over it or getting rid of the 80mm, covering the hole for it and using a 120mm instead on the back spot blowing in and the other 120mm out. Maybe even a chipset cooler. You don't have to buy rounded cables either you can make the ones you have rounded with some electrical tape and a hobby knife, and if you have a lot of drives a fan at the top doesn't help you a whole lot seeing that you have the PSU and all of the wire and drives in the way before it even reachs your moterboard.Of course when you try to get your pc cooler most of it is in fact just well researched experimentation. If you just get sick of the noise of the fans there is always watercooling. I hope that I was helpful to you. If you want anymore sites about cooling products like those at crazypc pm me and I will help you out with that. Sorry about the novel of a reply.