A properly designed case as far as heat release is concerned would have
to have louvers for vents in the top of the case. The fans would have
to take cooler air in from the bottom and exhaust it out the top. But
again as for Wayne's issue, it would be best to have an open case and a
huge static heat sink on the processor. Actually if processors were
made bigger with more surface area for the heat sink then it might be
possible to more easily eliminate the
fan. One big disadvantages of electric fans is that they themselves
create heat.
Yuser wrote:
I agree with this in theory but I have not seen it in real life. I have
two computers with MB/CPU temperature monitors. Both temperatures run
roughly 10F cooler on both computers with the case off. Maybe these are
not well designed cases but I have not seen generic ATX or AT designs that
were really any different elsewhere. Proprietary cases on mass produced
PC's do seem to have some flow characteristics designed into them but they
usually include some type of ducting to get it done.
