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Originally Posted by NedLynch
Hey, Katana, very nice, I am always impressed when I see case cableing like that, awesomely clean.
A quick question if I may. On your bottom mounted psus, do you think it is better (obviously in terms of heat) to mount with the fan towards the bottom grill or with the fan towards the inside?
Serious question, I tried both and just from touching the psu housing I feel fan to the inside is better.
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Good question, the PSU's in both my cases are designed with an extraction hole below the PSU so that the PSU can exhaust hot air out of the case rather than into it ... I also added caster wheels to each corner of my cases to swing them out as I'm constantly tinkering with them, thus the case bottom is a good inch or so above the floor ... but for major overhauls and rebuilds they go to a table in my kitchen ... they are actually quite heavy.
Since my pics I've also moved my second GTX 570 down to the bottom of the case as the top one was overheating a bit when the going got though, My Z68 (the proper chipset for Sandy Bridge IMHO) Gigabyte board allows two graphic cards to utilise the full bandwidth of PCI-E but unfortunately this meant sandwiching the cards together to use both 16 lane PCI-E slots ... I'm now on 8 lane PCI-E express slots for each card and better space between them and as apparently (currently) only two GTX 590's in SLI can totally saturate the bandwidth of two x 16 lane slots ... I'm not losing anything and my tests confirm this ... I could go GPU water cooling too but that's getting into silly money area ... and GPU's tend to have a shorter life span for upgrade folk like me and the water blocks can rarely be moved on to the next card.
PS: my wiring aint so tidy ... I've seen much better, the Corsair HX1000w is a fantasticaly stable PSU, but its awkward modular cables don't lend to neatness ... here is a pic of my cable routing on my I7 920 rig you dont see
