Help with cooling

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otimus

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The short of it, this is my case/computer:

http://i.imgur.com/ZXH6C.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/VcV0j.jpg
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I made this shoddily drawn "map" of where my fans/things are in my PC:
http://i.imgur.com/cdEso.png (The arrows are airflow)

I have an i5 2500K with a stock cooler, a PNY 560 Ti and a MSI Twin Frozr II 560 Ti SLIed. My case is a Lian Li Lancool PC-K58W ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112238 ).

I'm pretty unsatisfied with my temps. Things are gettin' a bit too dang toasty!
(I currently idle at around 37/38C or so for each card during the day (60C-75C on load, 75-80C on super demanding things like Crysis 2 and Metro 2033), and the CPU currently idles at around 37-38C during the day (While gaming, it usually gets to around 50-60-ishC) . At night, I idle at about 33-35C on each card, and 33-35C on the CPU at night.

Before I set a custom fan profile for my GPUs in MSI Afterburner, I had one of the cards hit 90C once :(

What are my options? Any ideas? Anything I could do to help that won't cost all that much money, or any fan arrangement tips? Any and all advice is super duper appreciated, thanks!
 
Not sure dont if it helps but re-apply new thermal paste to your pc sir?
I didnt see a side fan case either..
 
New thermal paste might help.

Your temps are fine and perfectly normal. If you want better temps, get better aftermarket heatsinks, turn the fans up, or go watercooling.

Edit: Just saw your pics. You don't even have an aftermarket cooler for your CPU. Your temps are what would be expected from stock cooling.
 
They're fine? I actually thought they were dangerously high, haha :( This is my first new computer in a really long time, so, I guess that shows what I know :(
 
Intel's current CPU's and modern GPU's are designed to tolerate temperatures up to 100 C. Especially modern GPU's, most can tolerate 110 C or higher. Fan profiles are geared towards silence, since the average user won't notice whether their hardware is running at 60 C or 80 C, but will notice any increases in noise.
 
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