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I was think about putting another fan on the side to blow air in, do you think its better to have the 120mm fan in the back set to blow and put 2 fans on the top to suck hot air out?

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I would personally use the 120mm as an intake, and have a top exhaust. But other than that, it will depend on your personal setup as to what can get you the coolest temps.

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Have you taken a look at Overclockers.com?

I think you'll find a lot of  hands-on information there.

I have no first-hand experience on this, but if you want an opinion...

Since you mention moving this system around I'd want to avoid water or freon and stick to air cooling.

I'd be worried about connectors and seals generating leaks from moving around with any fluid/sealed gas setup.

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The thread I linked hiim to was from overclockers.com's forums

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Water cooling is great but very $$$, the negative side on water cooling, they tend to have a leak but that is rare case but it can spark a fire or FRIED your computer.

That why some people have a method to test for leaks before putting them in the case. one guy put his radtitor in bucket of water, but using a compressed air in it and test if see any bubbles out of it

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If you just bleed the system (I think that's the right term; run the pump overnight and put paper or somethere where the parts should be) overnight and don't find any leaks/air bubbles it should be fine. But if he's going to a lot of lan parties, then that just increases the risk of something going wrong during all the moving.

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I need the best CPU cooling device out there, not water cooled because I heard that they arnt very good and not worth the money.

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Where did you hear that? A cool WC setup can be not only very cool, but also quiet. It isn't easy (never done it, gonna wait til my next comp), because frankly the kits are bad. Instead of trying to explain it in my tired state I'll just point you over to this guide, if you do look into it more there are some other good, part-specific threads on that page. As for air cooling, both the thermalright coolers are good, if you get a xp120 (what I would recommed, the bigger fan will push more air, make more pressure, and be quieter), I would reccomen a Panflo fan (120*38mm, I'll pull up some links tomorrow).

Since you are going to lan parties (I read that after typing the rest up XD), I would go air cooling, moving the WC setup around alot could be quite a hassle.

As for case cable management, I could give you some tips and try to find some stuff on that later too, but what most people do it cut holes in the metal board inbetween their motherboard and back case panel, then you can run the IDE etc. cables from the motherboard directly behind the motherboard to the appropiate drive, like so (not my case, mine is very messy). If you have dremel, it will make cutting the holes pretty easy.

Lastly, if you do with air cooling be sure to pick up some ArticSilver5, which is about 5-10/shipping online. A tube will last you a long time;as you only need to put a small amount on the chip, or it will actually have a negative effect on temps.

One more thing: have you thougth about a VC cooler as well? Dunno what card you have, but just throwing it out there.

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What are your other system specs? I would go with at least 3 fans, if you don't care about noise. Keep in mind airflow can really make a huge difference; as I found out when I bought a fan controller and was playing around with the various fan speeds to see my CPU drop from about 40-45C to 28-32C by turning down a few of the fans.

Now that I look at the case, it looks like the 120mm fan is at the back, in which case (no pun intended) depending on the strength of the 120mm fan you got you might not need anymore exhaust fans, what with your PSU fan aslo. Whatever you do though, be sure to post some pics. : )

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Has anyone tried this beta of Acrylic from M$? I downloaded it but if it's a piece of crap I don't even want to install it.........Hahahahahahaha.......

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Never heard of it o.O

Sounds so bad I'll have to check it out.