Airflow tweaking

Cuzzin Chizzy

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So the red arrows represent the direction of my fans airflow. The red square is my Ultra X-blaster cases vga vent which I have a 90mm fan attached to. The green square is the CPU airflow vent which has nothing attached to it. I would like to put a fan on it but the screw holes are just under the standard 90mm diameter(crappy).

I'm also thinking about getting some Gentle Typhoon AP-15s for my H70 rad. Right now I just have one stock corsair fan pulling air out of the back through the rad and the other one is pulling air in the front of the case. Wish this case had a top vent.

You guys have any tips or ideas on what I could do to maximize my cooling?

Right now my idle CPU temps are around 40*C with the one H70 fan. This article makes it seem like they should be a lot lower even with only the one fan
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-h70-liquid-cooling-radiator,2757-5.html

Do I need to reseat my H70?
 
Your ambient temps play a large factor in the idle temps, and are probably different to the ambient temps used in those tests,
if you have access to a drill then your case can have a top vent, and ading a fan mod into the front of the optical drive cage may also help slightly but theres a lot of gear in that case, I'd be more inclined to look at a larger case first
but staying with this case, and modding it,
fan in drive cage part, venting/fan in roof, or mod the H70 into the roof as exhaust, not intake (<My preference) then you can add a proper exhaust in the rear slot, and if you have a slot for a fan on the back of the cpu, then put a fan on there blowing onto the Cpu
i'd also look at rehoming the hdd's at the bottom, they block the fans airflow and have you tried it without the ramcooler? they don't always help overall airflow in my experience
Moto