RocketFish(rebadged LianLi) Cases!

[Polizei]

It gets toasty in there because your rad is dumping all of its hot air inside the case. Your temps on your CPU, among everything else, would drop if you top mounted your rad and had it exhausting air.

40mm fans move next to no air.

[Fujimitsu]

It gets toasty in there because your rad is dumping all of its hot air inside the case. Your temps on your CPU, among everything else, would drop if you top mounted your rad and had it exhausting air.

40mm fans move next to no air.

I realize, which is why I want to mount it externally. I'm kind of at a loss for a good mounting spot however for it... the radbox isn't ideal, but it would save me the trouble of modding. If i top mount it, I'll still be dealing with warm air being forced through it. Any external mount I do other than a bottom mount... which isn't really feasable, is going to be pulling "hot" case air over the rad to the outside. It's ridiculously hot in that corner of the case, the airflow is just horrid compared to my 900 (not a fair comparison, I know).

I realize the 40mm fan idea isn't going to do much, but do you have any other ideas?

The cpu loop really isn't dumping THAT much heat, it's only an e6300. It's 100% OC, but its only like 65w stock so its nothing considerable.

The problem really with the heat building up is the chipsets on the 680i, they dump a TON of heat into that area that just kind of floats up to the top and sits there. There's 0 airflow in that top-left corner of the case, so the northbridge and CPU area gets pretty toasty.

I was hoping that adding a bit more airflow would help offset the "damage" that will be done to potential temps by using a radbox. I really don't see a lot of other options here however, short of hitting the top panel with a hole saw.

Any suggestions as to what to do? I realize nothing I've suggested is anywhere near ideal, but I think a kama bay in the drive bays, and an additional fan or two would do wonders here.