Hi John,

Truthfully, I haven't used a rear fan as yet.  I purchased the modded side panel w/fan/LED & turned the fan to blow in- happens to blow directly on my memory & cpu.  All this amounts to is, in my case, the warm air being taken out via the power supply vents & it's own fan.  My internal case/cpu temps stay at around 37-40C degrees .  I'm running 120 GB & 60 GB hard drives, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, floppy, Soundblaster card, & ATI Radeon AIW 128mb graphics card (gaming & video authoring) & never see the case get overly warm.  The only thing I'd like to see, though this case's price is so low for what you get, is front mic/headset.

I would say to get/borrow a rotozip or dremel to cut away the backing where you intend to pu
t the fan- ought to take about 2 minutes at most w/a steel bit?

Lynn
PS- I just ran across this one at Dealsonic.com (though I have no personal experience with the brand)?  Codegen 4046.  It has front (2) USB & mic/headset:
http://www.dealsonic.com/caseonly.html
Many other inexpensive cases.

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