I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem - but I'm tired of having nice cases and having to run my system with the side panel off looking all ghetto-fied because having the panel on raises my CPU temps by up to 10*C!!!
I've tried a number of cases - primarily my Silverstone TJ09-BW and a number of different Lian Li's. Right now I'm using a LL PC-V1010B. Every upgrade cycle, I buy a handful of CPU's and find the one that overclocks the best, on the lowest voltage and at the lowest temps. For the last two CPU's (i7 920 C0/C1 followed by the current 920 D0), the idle temps have been low to mid 40's *C with the panel off. As soon as I put the panel on, the temps start to rise immediately and level of in the low to mid 50's *C!!!
This has been the case with the TJ09, the LL PC-X500, PC-V1010B and pretty much every case I've used in recent memory!
I'm sure others have this issue as well? How do you resolve this? Or . . . are there any cases out there that aircool just as well with the panel on or off? I hate using my system with the panel off but a 10*C spike is just too heavy a price to pay!!!
Ideas?
I've tried a number of cases - primarily my Silverstone TJ09-BW and a number of different Lian Li's. Right now I'm using a LL PC-V1010B. Every upgrade cycle, I buy a handful of CPU's and find the one that overclocks the best, on the lowest voltage and at the lowest temps. For the last two CPU's (i7 920 C0/C1 followed by the current 920 D0), the idle temps have been low to mid 40's *C with the panel off. As soon as I put the panel on, the temps start to rise immediately and level of in the low to mid 50's *C!!!
This has been the case with the TJ09, the LL PC-X500, PC-V1010B and pretty much every case I've used in recent memory!
I'm sure others have this issue as well? How do you resolve this? Or . . . are there any cases out there that aircool just as well with the panel on or off? I hate using my system with the panel off but a 10*C spike is just too heavy a price to pay!!!
Ideas?