Re: Overheating - need case recommendations

John-Paul Stewart wrote:
Haines Brown wrote:
Well, have you ever thought of just leaving the sides off?

I've always been led to believe that cases are designed to control air
flow, and leaving the sides off could actually result in more heating
than leaving them on.

I think that depends on the case.

With a cheap, poorly thought out case I'd bet leaving off the sides would help cool it.

With a well engineered case, where attention was paid to ducting high-speed airflow across critical components, that's when I'd expect leaving the sides off would do more harm than good.

My case is definitely of the 'cheap, poorly designed' sort - in essence a metal box with a few holes in it, which definitely is a part of the problem.

--Yan
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