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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Cobbled together duct. Red arrow pointing in is the intake from the 80mm fan at rear of case, duct slid over it and taped down. The other arrow shows the 70mm duct that slid over the CPU fan drawing the air onto the heatsink from the air the 80mm fan was blowing in!

The AMD fan's only 70mm? [instead of 80] Hmm... my YS Tech TMD fan is 70mm [well, the screw holes are the same as for a 70mm, but it's a bit wider at the sides]. I wonder what my temps would be like if I put that on my AMD h/s.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Now for the Songcheer extra wide case. Measures 9" wide x 16.5" long x 16.5 " high!! It's a short fat b'stard init!!

Short in length, but long in the tooth.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Front of case showing drilled air holes, note the 3 extra holes, oops! got carried away, shouldn't have watched Driller Killer earlier

I've made that mistake before as well. [extra holes, not the film]

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Inside showing air filter, just used some masking tape at right angles to hold it in place.

That stuff looks a bit dense, does it actually let enough air through?

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Here's the hacked out hole for the 120mm fan, B'stard of a job that was

So when are you going to tidy up those edges?

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Inside of case showing 120mm fan on the right, Arctic Cooler choking on the cables but the hot air is blowing towards the rear case fans!

I thought you were exagerating!

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

There is plenty of air space in the case, particularly at the bottom and across the GFX card and slots!

I'm not sure I'd call that plenty. Here's a pic of mine:

Admittedly that's my old Abit AN7 in there, not my current Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA, but the CPU is still in roughly the same position. Also, I have a slightly longer graphics card in now [X800 GTO] than I did in that pic [9600 Pro], but other than that it's pretty much the same.

Originally Posted by keithwalton

perhaps a new case is in order they are still cheap these days for a real basic one.
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Edit - £11 ... http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/108279 also avaliable in black, has space for a fan on the side panel though i think it will be to far back for your mobo. It has lots of hard drive slots which you seem to need ..

The main prob with his current case is that it's too short, so you recommend 1 that's even shorter?

Originally Posted by keithwalton

For a few extra squid you can get frills like front usb ports. Its only 39cm long tho! They do a 44.5cm long one which will give you more room. They do have alot of colours styles etc all for around the £20 mark.

44.5cm is roughly the same length as his current 1, what would be the point in getting it?

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

You can also just see the 120mm fan I strapped to the Graphics Card!

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

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

I think you'd get better airflow over your graphics card if you used something like this, as it would give airflow over both sides of the graphics card's heatsink.

As you're not afraid of going a bit "Heath Robinson" on your system, you could probably even make something like that yourself if you had a spare bit of metal lying around.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

£11 for a case, summat wrong with them?

Yes, it's shorter than your current 1.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

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

Just in case [no pun intended] you decide in the future that you'd like something a bit roomier without breaking the bank, this is the cheapest 1 that I'd consider a viable replacement. [manufacturer's page with more details & pics here]