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Old Dec 15, 2011, 10:51 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by enikmaster View Post
the idea is that the hard drives are not in front of the front fans so the air goes directly to the components that need to be cooled: the graphic card, memory and cpu. although, by placing the hard drives like that (sideways) they also get some of the airflow, allowing come cooling.
I don't think HDD's need that much cooling for one (other cases have put SSD's on the back of the mobotray with seemingly no cool air going past it at all) and two you could have done this with a traditional design as well (again like has been done)

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