I spent big bucks on one case that promised Air Flow and has some cone thing with a fan on it pointing at the CPU, it is now in the closet as it works better without the door on in the small cabinet under the counter where it has to live. Most of my computers are where they will fit and probably not the best locations....

If you have the "cone thing" with a fan blowing in, and the CPU fan blows "up" then it most definitely won't do what you want.

Turn the fan on the "cone thing" so it blows out, and your results will likely be different.

The biggest problem with most of my older cases is that the power supply only seems to mount with the top fan blowing at the top of the case. Had to cut 4" holes above the power supply in a couple machines or all they do is blow hot air around. My i7 is the only machine that I overclock the rest run stock with the good apps.

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If you have the "cone thing" with a fan blowing in, and the CPU fan blows "up" then it most definitely won't do what you want.

Turn the fan on the "cone thing" so it blows out, and your results will likely be different.

The biggest problem with most of my older cases is that the power supply only seems to mount with the top fan blowing at the top of the case. Had to cut 4" holes above the power supply in a couple machines or all they do is blow hot air around. My i7 is the only machine that I overclock the rest run stock with the good apps.

Yeah - I replaced my Dell 430s 350W PSU with an Ultra LSP450 (bigger fan) and the i5 core temps dropped from 66/67 down to 60/62. Even a decent PSU fan helps to get heat out of the case...

The biggest problem with most of my older cases is that the power supply only seems to mount with the top fan blowing at the top of the case. Had to cut 4" holes above the power supply in a couple machines or all they do is blow hot air around. My i7 is the only machine that I overclock the rest run stock with the good apps.

I haven't seen that -- on mine the power supply fans are always down.

My desktop machine doesn't have the cover on because I got lazy. It's easier to vacuum out periodically if you don't have to pull the cover first.

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The biggest problem with most of my older cases is that the power supply only seems to mount with the top fan blowing at the top of the case. Had to cut 4" holes above the power supply in a couple machines or all they do is blow hot air around. My i7 is the only machine that I overclock the rest run stock with the good apps.

I haven't seen that -- on mine the power supply fans are always down.

My desktop machine doesn't have the cover on because I got lazy. It's easier to vacuum out periodically if you don't have to pull the cover first.

That is one of the things I love about my new case. After about 6 months the inside is rather dust free. The 8 drive bays are mesh with filters behind them. So a large portion of the dust gets trapped in there. By the looks of things I'm about due for another cleaning as well.

I like the washing some filters every 3 months over taking my machine apart once a year to clean it out.

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I spent big bucks on one case that promised Air Flow and has some cone thing with a fan on it pointing at the CPU, it is now in the closet as it works better without the door on in the small cabinet under the counter where it has to live. Most of my computers are where they will fit and probably not the best locations....

If you have the "cone thing" with a fan blowing in, and the CPU fan blows "up" then it most definitely won't do what you want.

Turn the fan on the "cone thing" so it blows out, and your results will likely be different.

The biggest problem with most of my older cases is that the power supply only seems to mount with the top fan blowing at the top of the case. Had to cut 4" holes above the power supply in a couple machines or all they do is blow hot air around. My i7 is the only machine that I overclock the rest run stock with the good apps.

That is really odd. Generally the fan is in the bottom of the PSU & sucks air in blowing it out of the back. Sounds like some case makers put the PSU screw hole template on upside down. lol Or perhaps they had some other reason that only made sense to them for doing that.

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I had lots of trouble with over-heating in a poorly designed case. Didn't matter how many fans I put in it, it always got too hot. It now resides in the loft after being made redundant.

I upgraded it to the Antec902. Not everybody's cup of tea, but I like it, and it has 2x 120mm fans on the front, 1x 120mm fan on the back and a big 200mm fan on top. Keeps everything nice and cool now. Has filters in the front and side panels, so is much easier to keep clean and cool.

Did the same with my kids' machine when I built that. Bought them an Antec 300 case, and a couple of 120mm fans for the front (optional on this case). Also has a 120mm fan at the back and a 140mm fan on top. Again keeps everything nice and cool, and clean too. It's much more understated, but still a nice case.

I'll never get a case again without it having a 'blowhole' top mounted fan. It's so much easier as all the heat will rise anyway, and the top mounted fan gets it out of the case much more quickly.

Just my 2p...

regards, Gizbar.

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The only problem I have had with continuous crunching is mainly with hard drives. This problem is more prevalent in laptops than PCs. I just had a HD fail on my Dell laptop but it was three years old to begin with. The less RAM you have the more active the hard drive has to be with some of the projects, (such as Rosetta). I have an old machine that the HD worked almost all the time with Rosetta on it. I switched it to the Rectilinear project and it calmed down. Never had a processor or Ram failure though.

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