still shouldnt matter, but i have my arctic cooler running my cpu at 13c idle in the bios(at stock) and thats the same amount of heat as your C2D, and my cooler is assumed to be not as good. and i dont think i did anything too specail with the paste, i used a ton(more than you should anyways), but thats how i roll
its usually cold but not that cold, the cpu can be lower than ambient, since the heat is taken from the cpu to the HSF, only the HSF can not be under ambient, although i leave my window open all the time, and it drops below freezing at night i like having a cool room, soon as i get my heater working(my pc ) it should almost balance out.
I re-wired everything, and took some before/after picts.
that was the before. If you look near the bottom of the case, by the hard drive, you'll just just a chaos of wires. what you can't see are the two fans in front of those cables. I'm assuming that mess was messing it up.
Now the after:
That mess of wires near the bottom is gone. I tried to hide everything under the 3.5" bays, so they were out of the way. I also moved what I could behind the Opticals and the Rack since no fan is intaking up there, and I had no-where else to put them. Without a change in my Ambiants, my CPU idle has gone from 45 C to about 37 C, so things are getting better.