For those of you who remember me talking about wanting to buy a new mobo and cpu, I did finally take the plunge a little while back. I decided to go with an XP 2800+ and an Albatron mobo with the nforce2 chipset. Anyways, I have lm-sensors installed now and have been watching my temps (probably too much). I get the two socket temps that the BIOS shows, and those stay around 40 at idle and 50 under load for the CPU (about 34 for the system). But I also get what I understand to be the diode sensor, which is registering about 10 to 15 degrees higher than what the socket temps show. So the diode reading varies between 50 and 63 or so.

This seems high to me, if I can trust the diode readings...which are the more accurate right? I did upgrade my PSU to a 350W, and I think I installed the heatsink correctly and everything. My case is very, very cramped though. This mobo is rather large, and I can't even mount my cd-rw drives flush because they then smash into the third DIMM slot on the mobo. And the ribbon cables are all over the place...and there's no mounts for any extra fans The saddest part is that the temps I mentioned above are with the side off and a small desktop fan blowing towards the CPU. With the side on and no fan blowing in (obviously) the diode temp under heavy load gets into the low 70's.

Should I be worried about these temps? Do you think this sounds like my CPU is faulty or installed incorrectly or would a larger case with more fans and maybe round IDE cables drop my temp into an acceptable level? I figure the temps I'm getting now with the fan blowing into the side are as good as I'm going to get, so are the diode readings of about 52 at idle and 62 or so under heavy load acceptable?