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for the top that makes more sense, but for my plexi the dremel was needed also @sword_fish. i will get some ACTUAL pics, not ones i made in paint :-p

no, i made a large hole with my father's dremel tool. I need to pick up some metal mesh i think though to cover it up. I figured with the amount of modding im going to end up doing now, it'll be worth it not to have to drive 20 minutes just to cut something :-p

top fan mod you say. I do have 2 spare 120s I can throw up there, think that is enough? i suppose i would invest in that dremel tool now >.>

I just bought and installed a Corsair h80 Liquid Cooling System for my CPU, which uses 2 120mm fans, sandwiching the radiator on the back mesh of the tower. These fans are pulling air into the case I also have a 200mm Case fan on the side of my tower pulling air into the tower, which i installed specifically to cool off my GPU's (which it does nicely) Additionally I have an 80mm in the front, by the HDD bays, also blowing in. My question is, do i need some sort of exhaust somewhere? I'm sure i do, because the air must be all stagnanty. This is a (very) rough drawing of what the airflow is doing. lemme know what you think! myPC.bmp

Actully, I want to my fathers house, and picked his extra dremel he had, all i need to do it but tips now . a fan in the bottom isnt an option, i have less then a quarter inch between the bottom of my case and the second graphics card, also, my tower doesnt rally have high standing legs. Thanks for the advice, im gonna try something out after work today

There is one in the front blowing in, and one in the back blowing out

Hello! I have essentailly this case Here, except mine has plexi glass on the side so you can see through it. I Have been having some concerns with my heat situation, so I bought a 200mm Fan to install on the side of the case to cool off my GPUs. However I wanted to get some opinions before i dove into this. 1) How should i cut into the side of this? i assume not a hacksaw, but other then that I'm clueless on the best device to cut through plexi. 2) I know i should just "buy a new case cheapo", but the case i want is like 150 bucks, and this fan was 17 and some change, so i would like to get this going. 3) Once its in, should it blow out or in? or does it not matter? 4) any other advice would be awesome! Thanks!

ok i have some results here, but i'm not sure what they mean Results for 3dmark11 here Results for Vantage here is there something wrong? possibly a driver issue or something, or is this about where the results should sit?

i will rerun the tests tonite when i get home from work and post em all, on a side note, do i need to buy the benchmark software? or will the free version work?

Hey everyone, i know i know, its taken me a while to post back Well... i have my new PSU in, both cards are up and running, and i downloaded the mark vantage programs for benchmarking (the direct x 10 and 11 ones) and I think i might have an issue. When running 3dmark vantage (for dx11 i believe) it was extremely choppy and terrible looking. Am I doing it wrong? or are my 2 cards really not good enough to run that bench? It actually errord out during one of the tests so i don't have any results, and I have been too annoyed to try it again. Also, I downloaded msi afterburner to monitor my card temps, and overclock too, and i noticed something i think might be bad. My GPU 2, when idle, sits around 55 degrees, while my GPU 1 sits around 45. When I game they both jump up to around 75-80, but as soon as i finish, GPU 2 takes a lot longer to cool down. I think it might be a case issue. My bottom card (which i assure is GPU 2) is very close to the bottom of my case. could this be causing my temperature differences? and possibly the issue with my benchmarking? let me know what you guys think

thanx for the replies, i will use that guide for clearing drivers when i get home from work today. My new PSU will arrive tomorrow, and once that's in I'll start running some benchmarks and OCing my cards a bit to see what they can do! I'm excited to see my results and I'll make sure to post some before OC and after OC scored on here. As far as the SSD goes, I think I'm going to wait it out a bit. Instant program starts sounds amazing, but i pretty much exhausted my budget for the year on the cards and the PSU :-p, (not to mention I have my wedding I need to pay for next month >.<). I will most likely upgrade my HD's when i upgrade to the new bulldozer chips coming out soon. I will more then likely wait it until next year. (or maybe if im a good boy il get it for christmas ) Anyway, thanx and the results will be up soooooon

hmm, never thought about it. Aren't they mega expensive for little capacity? i wouldn't even think that would be much of a performance boost other then loading the OS faster. Then again, i could essentially just remove 2 of my 3 drives to replace it. (my second drive is barely used and my third is still blank). How big of one would i need?

my CPU isn't overclocked currently, however I'm pretty sure i can safely push it to 3.5 or 3.6. and an SDD boot drive? is that like a typo for SSD or something else

Hiya! I just upgraded my PC again. I have been working on this thing for about 2 years, and I'm pretty comfortable where I am now. My most recent addition was switching from my EVGA NVidia 9800 GTX+, to two HIS Radeon HD 6850, set up in CrossFirex (not counting the 800w PSU I needed to upgrade from my 600W). I noticed an increase in my performance, but not really to the level I was excepting I guess. I downloaded the latest drivers on AMD's website just to make sure that wasn't the issue. I'm was wondering, whats the best way to maximize my system. I know a little about overlcocking, but am by no means an expert, so i would like to try that avenue with a little guidance from my friends here! all of my current specs are in my sig. let me know what you think i should do

sweet, il think il start posting my results in the overclocking section, once i get my PSU all set up and ready to go