£500 Nvidia Intel Tower build.

Im also one for thinking that the whole thermally advantaged thing is getting blown out of proportion. From a personal point of view, there are much better things to consider when buying a case, and i couldnt give a toss where the PSU is mounted. As the above have said, there are advantages and disadvantages to both positions, of which translate in to borderline insignificant results.

Anyways, to attempt to finish this off once and for all:

Big.Wayne said:
Well firstly this Thermally-Advantaged concept has nothing to do with me, I'm just aware of it and mention it to other people as being a preferable design over the old-hat design . . .
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So i did some googling. This is what i found. Turns out even the latest official "thermally advantaged" chassis spec, courtesy of intel, leaves the PSU in the top for the reason of exhausting heat from the system.

To sum up, at the very least, please invent a new name for it :p
 
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Ignoring the arguments over the design of the case, Wayne, most the cases you specced are either too far outside the OPs budget (given a small budget it would mean too big a sacrifices in other areas) or were simply out of stock at the time of speccing
Dont get me wrong Im not trying to back either side of argument here just merely justifying why I originally specced the Asgard
And if anyone really wants to know, my case is the Lian Li PCA71F, in case it matters :D
 
@ thingemajib: LOL :)

That airflow diagram reminds me I've always been intending to swap my H50 over to exhaust and try the side fans as intake for the hell of it. Doubt it'll make much if any difference though.
 
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