been doing some testing and found With a generic case i got better temps with my current air flow setup with the side panel on.
But after slightly moving my fans to compensate for the missing side panel i got a few degrees cooler.
and again when i aimed my 30cm fan at the case it cooled...
well im not sure but im sure if you reconfigured the fans to aimed for the missing side panel you would probably see much better temps.... will try tomorrow
after my months of protecting XPs Honor i think its time to say Vista isn't that bad.... It does use Direct X 10 so its will be better for gaming and so on and after buying Vista there's no point in using something that the company's trying to kill
No prob and for the record i have about 3 HDD drives in my sig comp and two have OS on them and they both are able to read and play games on the same computer