Quote Originally Posted by xdan View Post
If you have a good ventilated case( i mean with 3-4 12cm fans) you don't have any problems... Even if you don't have such a ventilated case, at stock volts, any GTX 460 doesn't warm anything. An doesn't limit any overclock on Cpu, let say 4ghz on an i5 750, or 4.4ghz on an i3. I suposed that if you have money for an i7 you have money for a good case too..
You just exagerate.
Are you trying to say, a hot case is the same as the cold case?
I don't know how much you know about OCing and cooling, maybe i need to explain.

Hot air from these stupid "open" coolers has sevral disadvantages:

1-Hot air gets sucked in by those big fans, and heats up you GPU too. So it's debatable if you get a cooler GPU.
2-You NB and SB are really closed by, and they get toasted.
3- Hot air will limit your OC on CPU, for sure, and would affect your RAM-OC too.


Better case-ventilation needs more fans, and it means more noise, and we should try to eliminate the source of heat for 24/7 first, and then add more fans.