Time to fire up this thread again!
As I recently read through some heated airflow discussions over at Firewolfy's MI-6 Case thread on [H], I thought about my own case and what could be done to improve it's airflow and temperatures (and design).
At the moment the top cover looks like that:
It has vents for the PSU fan that takes air in directly from the top and as it outputs air at the back, it's practically disconnected from the other components (like in other cases).
Top cover off:
My idea now was to mount the PSU upside-down so that it sucks air in from below, from the CPU cooler output, so to speak.
Vents would have to go into the mounting bracket:
I don't know if it improves airflow in the case but I thought it would engage the air flowing throught the case as the PSU fan would act as an exhaust fan, in addition to the two 70mm fans below.
Back shot (old design):
The vents in the top panel obviously could be removed then, which would also have an impact on the overall design:
In comparison:
Tell me what you think ;-)
