Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

Heck a $50 case will cool better than that old case.

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Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

So what is the problem with the case? What hampers the airflow?

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What a crappy case I have

I'd suggest you get a good lawyer... ;)

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It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .

What a crappy case I have

I'd suggest you get a good lawyer... ;)

I heard that.
Carlos Yanez, Esq.

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Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

So what is the problem with the case? What hampers the airflow?

Fans that may be too slow or fans that are too small, cables in the way and not zip tied out of the way, The case not being big enough, not enough or too much heatsink compound(Depends on the heatsink really), etc, etc.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

So what is the problem with the case? What hampers the airflow?

Fans that may be too slow or fans that are too small, cables in the way and not zip tied out of the way, The case not being big enough, not enough or too much heatsink compound(Depends on the heatsink really), etc, etc.

How do you determine what is a good case by just looking at it? There are a bunch of cheap cases on newegg in the $25 range. Are they any good?

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How do you determine what is a good case by just looking at it? There are a bunch of cheap cases on newegg in the $25 range. Are they any good?

Newegg has excellent photos/descriptions/reviews, do your research.

If I can "look" at a case, then I open it up and examine the number of fans and locations, case air filters, hard drive cage and mounting methods, room to work. An example is when using the Heatpipe Direct Touch(HDT) HSF... Are the exhaust & intake fans in the correct location for the orientation of the HSF depending on the type of CPU being used(Dual or Quad)?... Yes it makes a difference. It's summertime in SE Texas and my Home Office maintains an ambient temp of 33C (CPU cores 62-56-56-58C). A case that provides proper/efficient airflow is important.

Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

So what is the problem with the case? What hampers the airflow?

Fans that may be too slow or fans that are too small, cables in the way and not zip tied out of the way, The case not being big enough, not enough or too much heatsink compound(Depends on the heatsink really), etc, etc.

How do you determine what is a good case by just looking at it? There are a bunch of cheap cases on newegg in the $25 range. Are they any good?

If the metal on the inside of a case is shiny It's a cheap pot metal case, You want a steel case with an SECC coating on the inside(It's a dull gray color, If You want Steel, Aluminum is a different story and I'd trust Thermaltake, Silverstone, CoolerMaster or Lian-Li.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Some of the things I look for in a case are 2 - 120mm fans in front to pull in cool air. You want good vetilation out the back as well. Since hot air travels up, a large fan near the top of a tower is a good thing. Your power supply should have a large fan of it's own. I like the Antec 900. There are others like it, but this is one cool running case.

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Built my Q6600 in an old hand me down case and boy is it crappy. With the cover on the CPU is at 63C just taking the side covers off it goes down to 47C! Wonder how many others have a crappy case causing heat problems? I drilled a bunch of holes and it brought it down to 57C still not good enough so I guess this one will just go thru life open.

So what is the problem with the case? What hampers the airflow?

I wish I could figure it out. I even drilled out 250 holes in the side right across from the CPU. I have a Stock CPU fan blowing out on the back of the case level with the CPU. Thats why I posted this just incase others having heat problems should at least try this instead of reseating CPU a bunch of times. It's an Enlight case.

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Official Abuser of Boinc Buttons...
And no good credit hound!

i highly recommend this Rosewill case to anyone other than Pete (Hiamps is gaining on me.).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147088

it has space for 3 120mm fans, 1 front and 2 side.
combine it with three of themaltakes 120mm high output fans (i like the blue leds)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999122

and you have some seriously fast airflow.


my Q6600 sitting in the above case oc'd to 3.1 ...
the four cores are resting comfortably at 45-48C
full load.

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i highly recommend this Rosewill case to anyone other than Pete (Hiamps is gaining on me.).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147088

it has space for 3 120mm fans, 1 front and 2 side.
combine it with three of Themaltakes 120mm high output fans (I like the blue leds)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999122

and you have some seriously fast airflow.


my Q6600 sitting in the above case oc'd to 3.1 ...
the four cores are resting comfortably at 45-48C
full load.

LED's are good for show to Me, Not cooling(To each their own though), I'll stick with Delta like below:
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/de12trblhisp.html
For a better view of what Sidewinder has in 120mm fans

Nice case though and I added the [ url] and [/ url] tags(without the spaces in the tags of course, So that the tags will show up).

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I like this TT fan. Best air flow while still reasonably quite. You can push more air, but not at 21dba.

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I like this TT fan. Best air flow while still reasonably quite. You can push more air, but not at 21dba.

I've have a few of those and had to replace one so far, I only have them on the intake, The exhaust has the real fast one, plus an 80mm screamer in the door and Vantec fan controllers are hard to come by today to keep the 80mm Vantec Tornado to a reasonable sound level while still delivering good cooling. :D

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Well sence I'm water cooled, I don't think it affects my cpu temp that much, but this is a cheap case,and the system temp is affected. I know it's getting warm up here, but we could be in YERMO! [ pant..pant..]
Here's mine, lousy picts, but o well

Well since I'm water cooled, I don't think it affects my cpu temp that much, but this is a cheap case,and the system temp is affected. I know it's getting warm up here, but we could be in YERMO! [ pant..pant..]
Here's mine, lousy pictures, but o well

It might be cheap to live out here for Me, But I have to reinvest into My houses windows and doors to save money on energy so that eventually I can bring a fifth & sixth quad PC online or to at least upgrade the older 3 quad PCs first, As It can get HOT out here as You may know already. :D

Heck I just bought one of these things to house My 4 Quads:

Instead of having the 4 PCs scattered all over My kitchen. :)
I mention this as I need a way to get the 4 PCs out of the way before I have the next window retrofitted w/a dual pane vinyl framed window. :D

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's