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To: BUGGI-WO who wrote (237345)	7/27/2007 7:21:08 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: Case fans. It's important to avoid negative pressure in a case. You don't want to stall air inside the power supply, which generally has a moderate speed fan. The rule of thumb is to have a near equal number of fans blowing in and out. Most cases have a rear case fan and PS fan, both blowing out. This one has a modest sized rear fan (that can be seen in the picture). The next fan you'd typically add would be a front or side case fan blowing in. In addition to the rear case fan, this case has 3 fairly impressive looking blowers on top of the video cards all blowing out the back. They've added 4 side fans blowing in which look to provide a good balance. Given the 3 blower equipped video cards and rear case fan blowing out, I'd be careful to not read too much into 4 fans blowing in. This setup maybe be saying more about power and cooling requirements of triple high end video cards than about the CPU.

To: BUGGI-WO who wrote (237345)	7/27/2007 7:29:52 AM
From: j3pflynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

BUGGI - Get serious. If it were from directly above, you'd have a point - but it's not. I guarantee that at least several folks on this board could tell it's a 15 mm thick fan, and if you went to an enthusiast site, the huge majority could. If you're as experienced as you said, I'm very surprised you can't. As a matter of fact, from the [H]ard OCP shot I posted, you can also see it running and that it has heatpipes. It looks very much like the standard HSF used in AMD's higher-end retail packages.