Honesty is the Best Policy............
Not sure if anyone will be surprised with this or not, but I only built maybe 5 or 6. I can really only remember 5, but I may be forgetting a couple.
I like building them up until the heatsink for the CPU, I swear I've put them on 50 times, second guessing myself at almost every application, I've put them on every possible way and I NEVER get as low of temps as people claim publically. I can't be continually screwing them up. So I don't even pay attention to temps unless I'm having stability problems.
In some strange way I equate this post to your thread, "What do you do with your computer". So oddly, and a bit off topic, I'm going to reply to that thread here (!) or (?) (readers choice)
Well, I run "Memtest" for a while, then I fire up "Prime 95", when I've overheated my machine with that, I head toward my half dozen or so favorite online AV scan sites, and let them scan my machine for a day and a half. When that's finished, it's back to more benchmarking, I got to have them great specs to let everybody see. Maybe by next week I'll have a spare minute or so to buy more computer parts.
April Fool's Day is for amateurs, April *****'s Day is for "computer enthusiasts". So everybody join in, and let's revel in the holiday!
I don't seem to run into picture perfect HSF fan installation either. One time I had one install too easily! Wowie, I thought that was going to screwup big time! So I thought to myself, "I had better quick rush over to Newegg and write a good review, 'cause I didn't think I was going to break my motherboard". Luckily I realized in the nick of time that this was my own incompetence. I kept my mouth shut, but I did login and downgrade my "technical ability" to "below average".
I read a post here at TS, that said the OP's CPU temp was about 19C. The room was about 21C, so I guess the desktop was in the refrigerator. I believe what "Speedfan" says, as if my life depended on it. And so should you!
I've built 4 computers recently, which through no obvious fault of my own, tragically booted on the first try. Well, in the case of an Intel G965, second try. This was because the BIOS and I didn't see "eye to eye" on how to configure the HDDs. Silly me, I tried to feed to it 2 SATA drives at once, and still expected it to know that it should run them as IDE anyway. Boy oh boy, did that BIOS help me to outsmart myself......., yet again! As the song goes, "here we go loop de loop".
I think all of us builders would find it uplifting to console ourselves with this little re-imagining of a movie classic;
And now a scene from, "Gone With the Wind--ows"; Scarlett turns to Rhett, voice quivering and says, "oh Rhett, I de-clay-ah, I just don't know how to get my new computer to boot. I am just Bee-SOD myself with anguish.
My tongue seems to have completely crashed and stuck in my cheek. Being straddled with limited diagnostic skills, I'm not certain if this is due to improperly installed attitude software, or a massive overdose of Lipitor. Should I start a new thread?