People are asking when the golden age of computing ended, 2 weeks before Intel is about to announce its response to the biggest competition in a decade. 2 weeks before AMD is set to announce an even bigger threat to Intel's higher end systems. 2 weeks before some of the most powerful consumer...
The C2 has the same heat at top of the case issue. Even with a Haswell Pentium running in my NAS and the HP-625 cooling it, the case gets fairly warm. My C3 also can get warm but at least the fan exhausts pretty well. I also had a build a few years ago in the U3 but it had pretty good temps...
I don't have an L9i to compare with, but the performance of the IS-40 v3 is the same as the Silverstone AR06 if you don't care about fan speed. Even with the fan speed turned down a bit, performance is still about in line with an AR06 however. The ID-Cooling fan will run up to 3000rpm while...
The HP-400 isn't so great. The fan clip seems a bit loose and performance is just ok. The IS-40 v3 performs much better for the same price. The HP-625 I have performs pretty darn well and the Jonsbo FR series fans are pretty quiet though.