Survey: How many of you leave your cases open?

[Biggs]

Maintenance cleaning every month is a b!tch though.

 

[IamDavid]

Why would you leave it open?

 

[Wingznut]

Case closed!

I have my PC in a compartment in my desk, which is raised about three inches off the floor, and I have a filter on my 120mm intake fan. It's very clean in my case.

Although, I do need to ventilate the compartment in my desk. After a couple hours, it gets pretty warm in there.

 

[divinemartyr]

I leave my case closed as well. I had it open for a while but it's quieter this way, and neater. Not to mention, I spent $120 on a stylish case, I love displaying it

divinemartyr

 

[cbwolf]

I keep my case on. How am i sposed to keep the fans attached if i leave it off?

 

[spamboy]

If you have a couple of case fans there's not much advantage to leaving it open.

 

[Diesel21]

Keep it off, have a Tower case, but not enough fresh air in my case makes it crash when its closed.

 

[Unsickle]

Case is closed. I made a custom switch to turn the case fans on/off. The comp is virtually silent with the case fans off... I only leave it off at night and when I'm away. The fan comes on for computationally intensive apps.

 

[GrimReefer]

One my tbird its always on, there is too much (oxymoron) cooling as it is. On my pII its always off since the bastard is overclocked beyond its limits. After playing IPX Quake3 all day, its running at 58c. I was thinkin about keepin a mini-fridge next to the case and just setting icecubes on the processor every 15 minutes. >=)

 

[MCS]

I used to when I had a Celeron 366 o/c to 605, but since then I have installed better cooling and I have a P3 + Alpha now.

In fact, my system runs cooler with the case side ON then off.

 

[Stephen24]

When my system is overclocked I take the side part of my case off and have a normall house fan blowing in it.

 

[Stephen24]

Oh, and it takes the temp down a good 4C if not more..

 

[Regalk]

With my case open temps are 3C cooler since I have 2 video cards in there including the toastmaster oven --->voodoo3 3000 PCI. I plan on cutting a hole just next to the voodoo to vent the hot air out.

 

[Dan]

I keep the case closed. The blowholes are more effective that way.

 

[Renob]

I spent way to much on my case a Tornado 2000 to keep it open I sounds like a jet in my room but it keeps my system nice and cool and it is great to work in lots of room and the mobo try slides out.

 

[deadlock]

Closed. No choice - my mum insists. And I live in Malaysia, a hot country. So even without O/Cing, the thing runs hot enough. Sheesh. Sucks man.

 

[Mem]

Closed,helps keep the dust out,quieter & still rock stable, so no need to have it open.

 

[wolf550e]

[deadlock]: too bad... i live in israel, which is the same climat, but my mom lets me keep it open. its not stable on full load when closed. (funny thing though, is that rc5 wont make it crash, but q3a crashes in 5 minuts when oc and case closed...)

 

[Pakman]

My 1Ghz Thunderbird system is closed... My celery 300a @ 450mhz is left open... I could probably close it up if I got a better case, but y spend the money on a better case when I can get a faster unoverclocked processor for the same price... hehe... I'm looking for a P3 600e (or faster) slot 1 coppermine processor for under $100 if anyone has one laying around. Would prefer 100mhz bus processor so I don't have to buy new ram.

 

[Wuming]

kept my case close for aesthetic purposes... haa... keeps the dust out mostly. and keep things like food and hair and whatever else out as well!

 

[Davegod75]

i don't but my bro has too cause he has a cheap case and it gets too hot

 

[Shu8]

i keep mine closed, why would i need to keep my antec sx830 open?

 

[Thor_Sevan]

On my old pentium 166.. the case was so ugly that I removed it hehe
It was much nicer without case ! LOL

After that I got my Athlon 600 and the case is on. (this case is nice.hehe)

 

[jsbush]

Ever since my first celeron (566) I left my case closed. Before with my AMD K6-2 or my penitum 233 I would leave the cover off most of the time.

 

[Modus]

My cases are usually closed to prevent Kosmo the cat from inspecting the hardware

Modus