Air flow is very important if you have passive cooling (for quietness) or dead spots in your case where air doesn't typically circulate and electronics provides a heat source.
Being a man of refinement, Tony, I have hunch that you would love this case for its open design: http://www.maximumpc.com/sites/future.p2technology.com/files/imce-images/dav eguts_large.jpg An interesting article on heat and cooling. You'll need to scroll through the pdf to get to the article. http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/MPC0707-web.pdf > -----Original Message----- > AFAIK this is an old wives tale from the days before they built > temperature > sensors into chips. It was difficult to argue with back then. But these > days > it only takes minutes to actually test, and every test I've ever seen > shows > temperatures dropping the more open the case is. > > This case I have right now has a fan in the side panel that blows right > at > the CPU. But the CPU is still at least 10deg cooler when open (with > that fan > removed). > > That doesn't mean there aren't other disadvantages to the practice. If > it's > on the floor and you have pets/kids, forget it. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
