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Maybe this belongs in the cooling section, if so Im sure it will be moved there(sorry Fredi), but Im more interested in peoples designs for cooling their system. My main complaint is that both of my cases have a mount for a fan at the bottom, front of the case, but that area is always blocked off (meaning the actual face plate doesnt have holes for the air to blow out of, or suck in from. I just got a 70 case with front USB, speaker, and headphone panels, and I'd prefer not to hack the thing apart to get better cooling, but what should I do? I will be running a 850 Tbird @approx 1-1.1Ghz, a ATI Radeon LE 148mhz@190, and 2 45GB 7200 RPM hard drives.... I have a fan on the powersupply, and an intake fan on the back, but what other cooling should I Add? (I also have a global WIN FOP32 HSF on the chip...) I thought putting a BIG fan on the top of the case to suck hot air out would be a good idea, but thats hacking apart the case again.....
PS I have a few extra case fans, but most of them are set up to use power from the power supply, my power supply only has two of those types of cords... one for the floppy A drive, and one for another fan.... How do I hooke up another 2 fans?
Side note-Im not worried about noise.. loud is cool
-AMD's are not for the faint of heart... Intels? those are for newbies 
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You can get y's to extend the number of fans you can use in your system, and they also have converters to go from 3 pin to 4 pin, so your safe there.... another idea is putting in some sorta exhaust in one of your extra 5 1/4 drives or in the pci slot below the video card.... or you could buy a kit and put some heatsinks and fans on the vid card...
-AMD's are not for the faint of heart... Intels? those are for newbies )-
I know, thanks dude.. I saw some online. My only question is how much will it benefit you? If I have my power supply exhausting, a fan on my chip, an intake at the bottom front of my case, and an outtake at the back top, how much is a slot fan going to do?
Old addage: "Users never prosper" ) Long live the tweakers
Im thinking of doing a YS-Tech 120mm fan in the front for intake, the same fan on the top of the case for outtake, and an 80mm on the side of the case blowing in, with an 80mm outtake on the back... sound right?
131.5CFM + 50cfm = 181.5 IN 181.5 Out 
each of the 120's are 131.5CFM
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