Hey Night,
I have that same case. Here is what I did and I can run Doom 3 or even hammer away at F E A R for a few hours in a NON AIR CONDITION room and my gpu and cpus never get above 68 degrees C.
First as for the tri cool fans that come with the case.
1. Make sure you look closely at the side of the speed switches, (it's hard to read because it is NOT highlighted) . YOu will notice that the fan speeds are indicated by an "L", "M" and "H" respectively. Like I said before I didn't even see it either at first because the indented letters in the small plastic switch box are not highlighted black or some color that we all can see :roll:
2. Make sure the fan on the roof is set so it SUCKS air OUT of the case... because we all know hot air rises right?
3. If you have a hard drive mounted in the upper chamber, take it out and mount it in the lower chamber instead.
4. I know we all have said this about airflow before but I will say it anyway. Clear all wiring away from the cpu and VID CARDS ESPECIALLY.
5. Carefully fold your IDE ribbons for your floppy and optical drives tuck them behind the slide out metal box and if you can, whatever will fit behind the space behind your mobo.
6. For the fan wires and the 4-pin power plug (you may have to mod the wire for this one) that goes to your mobo, run those wires up the side/inside-corner of the case and secure it with small zip-ties.
7. Make sure that the sliding door that separates the upper from the lower chamber is tightly closed so hot air from the hdd's and PSU don't seap upwards.
8. Make sure your PSU fan is facing upwards. .....there is more space between the top of the PSU and the chamber divider, then there is underneath.
9. Whatever wires that are NOT being used coming from the PSU, tuck them underneath the PSU and make sure none can sneak back out and get chopped by the mid-way fan in the lower chamber.
That's about all I can think of for now. If you want, I can send you a shot or 2 of how I got my rig set up. Shoot me a PM w/ your "E" and I'll send them right out to ya.
Hope this helps your heat issue man....works for me...Cheers
IG specs
Antec P180 PerformanceSeries Mid-Tower Case
SeaSonic S12 600 watt power supply
Asus A8N32 SLI mobo socket 939 AMD N-Force 4 SLIX16 (bios 1103 V02.58)
RealTek 97 onboard digital 5.1 Surround
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo Core, 2 X 1mb L2 cache (AMD driver 1.3.1.0 w/MS hotfix & AMD Dual Core Optimizer)
2 gigs of Corsair TwinX3500LL Pro @ 437Mhz 2-3-2-6-1T
2- BFG 7900 GT OC 256mb in SLI (nvidia driver 91.31)
Western Digital RAPTOR 74.3 gig 10-K rpm HDD for XP & Apps
Maxtor SATA II 250 G HDD for gaming, movies, MP3's
Maxtor SATA II 250 G HDD for document backup (unplugged)
Sony CDrom 52X
Plextor 708-A DVD/CD rom
Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 THX 500watts
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