Overheating Problem/please help

[The Machinist]

Hi, I'm having some issues with my system overheating, mainly my video card. I live in Arizona and its been over 100 degrees lately. My house gets up to 85 during the day with my swamp cooler. Recently my video card fan died and i got a replacement from xfx. They have great customer service, by the way. Anyhow my card is getting pretty hot. Pushing 60 C or higher when i'm in game. I start getting random lines and artifacts, when it gets this hot. I've resorted to taking the side cover off my case and putting a fan on it as a temporary fix.
I was thinking of getting a new case with better cooling. My system is about 6 months old. I built it myself with a case that is about 6 yrs. old. Its a mid tower case with a front intake fan and a small exhaust fan in the back. I added a 80mm fan in the side cover but i don't think its enough. I'm using the stock amd fan on the cpu.
Can anyone suggest a good case for an upgrade? I'd like to keep it under $100 if possible? Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading my post

p.s. here are my system specs:

AMD Athlon X2 6000+ Dual Core
3Gb DDr2 667 Ram
XFX Nvidia 7600gt 256 Mb GDDR 3
Sony Dvd-cd/rw
I-inc 19" lcd wide screen
200Gb HD
Gigabyte GA-3PXSL-RH Mb
Logitech Mx518 Laser mOUSE
Labtec Keyboard
Creative SB audioPCI

 

[Badger]

does your case have any room for expansion or aftermarket fan case fans?

or if you have a pci slot open look for a pci slot cooler and shove it right under the gpu



This should work for ya.

 

[M3dley]

Yea you need a cooler on that thing asap. if you can maybe get a new case, considering you do live in arizona.

If your looking into another case, although expensive, these two cases are some of the best in both cooling and performance.


Antec P180
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129154


Antec 900
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021

 

[Badger]

I love the antec 900. If you need to you can get some aftermarket fans and replace them if you don't like the led look.

 

[The Machinist]

Thanks a lot for the advice. I do have room for a pci slot cooler so i will look for one of those first. I definitely like the look of the antec cases too! I think i would go with the p180 because i like how clean it looks. Thanks again for taking the time to help me!