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Originally posted by NiteMare
would keeping the side face panel off my case be a good or bad cooling idea?
It can go either way. Try it and see. The ventilation design in a typical desktop PC is very primitive and there it would usually help.
In case of more advanced designs, where the air flow is carefully channeled to the right places, it can hurt -- most high end server hardware, particularly tightly packed rack mount systems, come with warning labels to never operate it with covers removed.
