best case for airflow

Cew27

Cew27

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i have a gigabyte aurora 3d case whick was fine for a while at stock clocks but it doesnt have very good airflow so i was wondering what is the best case for airflow under 200 pounds
 
Cew27 said:
i have a gigabyte aurora 3d case whick was fine for a while at stock clocks but it doesnt have very good airflow so i was wondering what is the best case for airflow under 200 pounds
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Antec 1200 looks interesting...probably going to be my next case.
 
i have 2 akasa 105 cfm ones shorted the thermistor so they are at 100% all the time and a crappy stock one
1 akasa intake
1 aksa outake from cpu
1 crappy stock above cpu outake
 
I drilled some holes (and put a fan behind) in my Akasa Mirage side panel to allow me to have another intake to help cool the graphics card / southbridge, it dropped my CPU idle temp by 5-6 °C and my GPU idle temp by about 7-8 °C!

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Its a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a new case, and it saved me £23 on the akasa eclipse/mirage 62 "thermally enhanced" side panel which comes with pre-drilled holes and a fan.

Or if your case allows, you could add a scythe kama bay to help increase airflow:

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I have 3 120mm intake fans and 2 120mm exaust fans (inc PSU fan). I do have 5 hard drives blocking the 2 front intake fans though so the additional side panel one for me helps a lot.
 
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Well when I say "I" I mean my dad, I just measured where I wanted the fan to be and marked it all up, he got a template from work which I taped to the underside of the case panel. It was actually really easy to do, but it just took a while :)
 
That's very nice drill work seeing as it was done by hand. Very precise.

Another option would be to either cut a big hole for a fan, or cut out a window and put perspex in it and cut a hole in the perspex for a fan. A dremel is perfect for the job.
 
The majority of it was done using a drill press, about 1/3 of it was done by hand as you couldn't physically get the drill press in the right place due to the size of the side panel (although you cant see which bit was done by hand).
 
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