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Web-Junkie · 06-08-2007, 18:37

All three of the 5.25" bays are full, bottom two have DVD drives and top one has a 3.5" HDD bolted to a set of 3.5" to 5.25" brackets.

I use the floppy, especially for memtest, bootdisk, HDD diagnostics and BIOS flashing so won't remove it.

Case was bought when the Pentium III 450Mhz came out, the one you slotted in!

Funnily GFX temps have gone DOWN since strapping the fan to the heatsink? Maybe now I've got better airflow has helped too!

Ã‚Â£11 for a case, summat wrong with them? A mate has the Kandalf case, the one with the huge 25cm fan in it! If the one you've linked is like the one he has then there are 2 doors you have to swing open to get at the 5.25" bays, you open one door and then the other as the first door hides the second door underneath! One problem with that is the doors are heavy and tend to swing back to the closed position. If you eject a DVD by mistake the tray jams on the door as it can't push the door open!!

Think I'll keep this case for now, nothing is going seriousy high temps in it and Ã‚Â£180 is like Ã‚Â£180 more than I want to spend at the moment!

06-08-2007, 18:37	#102
Web-Junkie Inactive Join Date: Aug 2004 Services: 30mb BB Posts: 1,556	Re: Making a CPU duct to draw outside air onto CPU! All three of the 5.25" bays are full, bottom two have DVD drives and top one has a 3.5" HDD bolted to a set of 3.5" to 5.25" brackets. I use the floppy, especially for memtest, bootdisk, HDD diagnostics and BIOS flashing so won't remove it. Case was bought when the Pentium III 450Mhz came out, the one you slotted in! Funnily GFX temps have gone DOWN since strapping the fan to the heatsink? Maybe now I've got better airflow has helped too! Ã‚Â£11 for a case, summat wrong with them? A mate has the Kandalf case, the one with the huge 25cm fan in it! If the one you've linked is like the one he has then there are 2 doors you have to swing open to get at the 5.25" bays, you open one door and then the other as the first door hides the second door underneath! One problem with that is the doors are heavy and tend to swing back to the closed position. If you eject a DVD by mistake the tray jams on the door as it can't push the door open!! Think I'll keep this case for now, nothing is going seriousy high temps in it and Ã‚Â£180 is like Ã‚Â£180 more than I want to spend at the moment!