XDreamer II cooling question

[spwango]

So, I slapped together my new box last night. MSI mobo, AMD 64 3000+ in an Aspire XDreamer II

Anyway, I didn't add any fans--my case temps are a bit on the high side (generally higher than the CPU temps), so I need to add better cooling.

1) Does anyone with this case have any experience removing the bezel in order to add a front intake fan? It didn't have any instructions with it, and I don't want to do surgery on it blindly.

2) The other option is to just add a intake fan on the rear of the machine. I've had problems with low pressure areas before in previous boxes, but I've never attempted a situation that could cause high pressure. If I added an intake to the rear of the case, I'd have a side intake, a rear intake, a blowhole, and the large fan on the underside of the PSU--Am I wasting my time to attempt this?

thanks,

spwango

 

[RussianSensation]

Just go for front intake and rear exhaust, side intake and top exhaust.

Its fairly easy to remove the panel if you are careful. Simply open the front window and the other side of the case and remove those panels. Then starting from bottom and working your way up, squeeze the bottom pegs with your fingers and slowly push the front panel forward. Then squeeze the middle ones and finally the top. You can use the screwdriver to help you keep one pin pushed all the way while you are squeezing the other one on the opposite side that way the panel will become reattached at that particular "horizonal line" (this will be mostly beneficial for the top 2 pins since its hard to get your fingers in there to push or squeeze the pins). So basically the bottom will "lift up" and then the middle and so on. Its very easy. When i got the case shipped all 6 pegs were broken and my front panel was completely unattached. Instead of sending it back i just used superglue to glue the pegs back together and i still took my front off at least 4 times afterwards with no problems so if you are careful you wont damage anything.