How's this for a good cooling case?

drewski

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I've got the Fong Kai 320 with a 120mm panaflo up front (86 cfm) and the 92mm standard rear fan (feels like something like 50 cfm). Plus I've got an Enermax 451 w/ the two fans. I've also got the middle tier Taisol (734092) so the CPU cooling could use some work.

Room Temp: 22 degrees

Case open temps:
Mobo: 23 degrees, Full Load: 53 degrees, Asus GPU Temp: 55 degrees

Case closed temps:
Mobo: 23 degrees, Full Load: 50 degrees, Asus GPU Temp: 56 degrees

Looks like the directed motion of the air with the case closed (mini-wind tunnel) actually gets my CPU cooler than with the sides wide open!

This is directly opposite of my smaller AT case with 80mm up front and only the PSU fan in back where opening the case lowered both the MoBo temp and the CPU temp. Go Fong Kai!

Of course, it looks like the circulation around my AGP card has suffered, as this temp has gone up slightly. . .
 

drewski

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Been running prime95 all night. Temp actually has gone down a notch to 49 degrees!