right wrong or indifferent taking the side off a PC has always in my
experience cooled it down CPU core and system temps generally drop by a fair
few degrees.
i'm using Xeons and they are set to suck air through the heatsink and blow
it out the top so they help in that situation by getting hot air (in this
case ~160W (i got 2 of them)) out of the case.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Russell McMahon
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 21:42
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: Re:[OT] DDR Memory voltage and system cooling
>
>
> >> I just put together an ATX Athlon 64 system, it had 7 fans. That's
> >> right, 7 fans.
>
> > For some reason the tendency recently has been to add more exhaust
> > fans, first on the back below the PSU
> > (which is exhausting anyway), then the side and/or the top of the
> > case - presumably because "getting the heat
> > out" is the aim.
>
> My desktop PC (actually desk underneath PC) has its temperature alarm
> set at maximum setting. On average NZ summer days when doing a cpu
> intensive task it would start doing a good imitation of a two tone
> emergency vehicle siren. Easy solution was to remove case side and
> position a large (500mm dia?) pedestal fan sans pedestal against the
> open side blowing large quantities of air into PC. Not pretty, but it
> works.
>
>
>         RM
>
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