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  1. I have a question about a new build I'm putting together using this chassis in it's shipped state. With one windowed panel and two vented panels, I wonder about the best configuration for airflow. The intention was the window on the side near the video card, with a Swiftech H240-X CPU cooler mounted above it as exhaust, two Cougar 140mm fans on the front directed as intake and one Cougar 140mm on the back for exhaust. The front panel has openings on the side of my stacked fans that were there to accomodate the 200mm fan. Will I need to cover that in some way to keep a high static pressure and to prevent air pulling around the side instead of from the room? With the single 240 radiator up top, some air will naturally escape through the other half of the vented top. Will that keep enough air from flowing over my open air GPU? With a second vented side panel what keeps the air moving in a direct path to cool components instead of bleeding out through that panel? Obviously my biggest concern is the GPU. The CPU has an oversize AIO liquid cooler on it, but without putting an intake fan right next to the GPU or rigging a baffle in the front to force the intake air to the left, how do I keep the air going where I want it? I'm considering putting a piece of cling wrap between the filter and the right panel so that it doesn't exhaust, and covering half of the top the same way. The second way which I'm not excited to undertake would be a second window panel and dremmeling out intakes for two fans on that side so that air can't just bleed out through the rest of the panel. Any thoughts? Components: OCZ Fatal1ty 1000w PSU, ASRock Z97M Fatal1ty Core i7 4790K overclocked to at least 4.3-4.5 Corsair Vengeance 1866 16gb Samsung 850 Pro 256Gb SSD MSI GTX980 Gaming Twin Frozr Swiftech H240-X (x1) Cougar 140mm Hydro (x3) I'll post pictures when I'm done but the entire inside has been repainted. I've decided to go with a vertical motherboard setup.
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