> Ideally, I want the temperature to be at 29.0-32.0C. How
> would I do this?
Fill bath with cold water. Place PC in bath. Sorted.
This may however cause other problems ...
Anyway, can I translate for you? You didn't open the hard drive, 'cos those things are sealed and there's no chance of any dust being inside. And opening a hard drive causes said hard drive to become a door stop. You mean the base unit. Dust inside is, basically, bits of you that have fallen off. Keeping a PC in a bedroom isn't a good idea because of the amount of dead skin that will get sucked in to the PC.
There will be two or maybe three fans in the PC. Make sure they're all spinning away merrily. If they are, and there's nothing blocking the air to/from each fan, then the temperature should be fine. Make sure the heatsink (a metal finned thing) sat on the CPU (the hot thing) is fixed down properly. Sometimes the clips come undone if the machine is moved.
I don't know what temperatures CPUs reach these days, but 51.8C doesn't sound worryingly high to me. A gradual rise over months will either me more bits-of-Ryan clogging up the fans, or a fan slowing down (just replace - they're cheap (certainly cheaper than moving to Scotland ;-))).
Dave
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