Quote Originally Posted by Cronos View Post
Place a fan at 1/4" above desk and compare with open air, and see how much of airflow you are losing.

I am all about maximum performance. I have dual quad-Xeon machine, overclocked, and i don't want to loose even 1C to the "bling" factors.
And you are loosing much more due to inefficient rad placement.
Um..no difference in temps. beleive me, if it was better temp-wise to have rad outside, I would. If i got better temps without a case, I'd have it that way too...but for my rig, it doesn't make a difference...not in exhaust air temps, not in water temps, not in cpu temps, not in chipset temps, not in either gpu temps.


So yeah, it works quite well for me. I'm sorry this is not up to your standards, but I'm more than happy with it.