sorry D*Art, not a microfly/xqpack clone. But it's a damn fine bootleg of the Aerocool m40. The only differences appear to be the front bezel vent/grille and the vacuum fluorescent display instead of a backlit LCD. (the carbon fiber variant bezel is quite fetching though) I can't find it for sale in the U.S. yet.
we've discussed the M40.
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ey=y&keyword1=sff+case
As far as mods for cooling,
1) regardless of what else you might do, cut the upper pan/tray and give the psu a clear opening to draw air from the lower bay. The psu fan may not pull that much air, but given that it's directly above the video card you'll want to give it as big an opening as possible.
2) as I said in the other thread, most of the higher end top-down blower cpu heat sinks(with fan) are probably going to be too tall to fit without some modding. You may be able to cut a 120x120mm hole in the upper pan to allow it to fit a Thermaltake big typhoon/Silverstone Nitrogen NT06/Thermalright XP120. The only problem is that if the cooling fin array isn't offset from the center of the socket or your motherboard has the socket located further away from the top edge, the power supply may get in the way. You would probably have to get some schematic/detail drawings and make some measurements of the board/case to figure it out. The TR XP120 is only 63mm tall, so of all of the down-blowers it has the best chance of fitting without protruding into the upper bay/tray. [Bad news is you'd have to get an adapter mounting bracket from TR because the XP120 is socket478.]
3) you could try a smaller tower cooler like the TR ultima90, AC F7pro, zerotherm btf90. Cutting another hole in the pan might allow a shorter tower type to fit. You'd probably be limited in the directions you could mount it, but a good 4 pipe tower sink should be able to handle a stock Q6600.
[if you're crazy like me, you could mount a noctua120mm tower inside a microfly. It takes a lot of dremeling of the cross members and prohibits using the removable m/b tray when done, but I did it. pics to come.]
Beyond the grill-ectomy and more radical cpu-sink, I don't know that there's much else to do. Mounting more fans may not overcome the limited heat transfer ability of the 8700, and the top panel of the case probably won't fit a 120mm exhaust fan and the PSU. Hope this helped.
[You'll probably be hearing from Skott soon, wanting to know how your 7900gtx full length card fits with the removable HD cage. ]
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