Blimey... 55 deg?! Bet you you're using an Athlon XP, right? Athlons always run damned hot... you're not OCing, no?
Mine has never gone above 42 deg with a GHz P3. The heat sink on it isn't bad, and it's got a quite substantial fan on the top and two case fans with in-case ducting over the CPU, RAM and PCI/AGP slots. And the case is metal, natch.
55 deg seems a bit high to me, but I've not had much experience of this kinda thing... all I know is my own processor. Once I build my own comp, we shall see... I imagine I'll need to keep it inside the freezer.
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