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<blockquote data-quote="Luca Brasi" data-source="post: 1101301" data-attributes="member: 60220">Puh, honestly I'd be concerned about the temps if you proceeded like you described. Decreasing the height will make cooling more difficult. I guess if you close the front in any way you will need some more outtake in the back. And I would go with some 120mm fan in that case. And you will need intake air in the front definitely. Right now your setup is more like an running a system openly on a table. As soon as you close the front it is a complete different story. Additionally you should think about easy access to the hardware and that you might add some stuff in the future. So my advice is to cut a nice round hole in the back near the tv card and install a fan. Install a cover with a big enough intake at its right side. If you doubt my feeling about the temps you could try to simulate how it's gonna be. Take some paperboard and tape and close the front almost completely. Then take aida64 and do the stability test. Have a close eye on the temps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Luca Brasi, post: 1101301, member: 60220"] Puh, honestly I'd be concerned about the temps if you proceeded like you described. Decreasing the height will make cooling more difficult. I guess if you close the front in any way you will need some more outtake in the back. And I would go with some 120mm fan in that case. And you will need intake air in the front definitely. Right now your setup is more like an running a system openly on a table. As soon as you close the front it is a complete different story. Additionally you should think about easy access to the hardware and that you might add some stuff in the future. So my advice is to cut a nice round hole in the back near the tv card and install a fan. Install a cover with a big enough intake at its right side. If you doubt my feeling about the temps you could try to simulate how it's gonna be. Take some paperboard and tape and close the front almost completely. Then take aida64 and do the stability test. Have a close eye on the temps. [/QUOTE]

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