Ram and HD cooling

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xnikx

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I like that case because the hard drive bays at the bottom put the drives inline with the front panel fan instead of sideways where the drive cage severly restricts airflow across the drive. So you should not have any issue with HD temps. Looks like a nice big 120mm fan up front with good venting to outside air, good stuff. A drive that is SMART enabled can have the temps read by several software programs. But really not going to be an issue in that case.

Mount a single HD directly centered on the center of the front panel fan so air flows over the top and bottom. If using 2 HD mount them at the bottom and top of the fan airflow with a empty bay centered on the center of the fan. If 3, well, no choice really put em all in front of fan.

Normally ram is cooled by the air discharged by the cpu cooler. If you have good case airflow, and you should if you put fans in all the fan positions on that case, dont worry bout it. I know of no normal way to read ram temps unless you did something like mount a temp probe on/under the heat spreader. Really not worth the trouble imo. but if you really want to, try this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835119011
 
i have the hd by the psu because i moved the 120mm in the other driver bay on the other side so air would blow on the gfx card.
 
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