IMac Aluminium Temperature and Fans Issues

Well.. hi everyone i have a curious problem.. its a long history but ill resume it
I have an alu imac, the fans are in 1200rpm but the imac keeps overheating, the psu is in 80ºC and the fans doesnt increase the rpms to lwer that temp, what can i do? i reset de SMC, the PMU, the IDUNNOWHATMORE and all that stuff, and the rpms doesnt change, what can i do?

Hi alphOx
I have the same iMac. I used to use SMC but stopped using it a couple of weeks ago due to fear of dust build-up and my tinkering with fan speeds. What is your ambient temp? Mine is around 24ºC. The hottest part of my computer is the Power Supply position 1 which sometimes reaches the 80ºC when I run labour intensive programs. I only get worried when CPU's or drives reach the 70's which doesn't really happen as the fans do ramp up naturally. I would recommend using Temperature Monitor to set alarms to tell you when certain parts of your computer hit whatever temps you feel uncomfortable with, ie mine are 75ºC for everything except the Power Supply.
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html

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> I have just installed a Sun PCi II card and am
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