On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 23:08 +1000, Jake Anderson wrote:
> 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.

There is no doubt that removing the side of the case will result in a
lower CPU and NB temp. However, one must remember that those aren't the
only two components that generate heat.

The HD and memory are the ones that suffer IMMENSELY if you remove the
side, with no air flow past them they can easily cook themselves to
death. I've seen it happen. 

I know of two cases where someone removed the side panel on a system
because they noticed the reported CPU and NB temp dropped. In one case
it took 3 months for the HD to fail. In another it took only 1 month...
In both cases the HDs were too hot to touch.

TTYL 

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