Reply 20 of 36, by squareguy
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Yeah the first thing I do to a case is tear it down and clean it. I didn't go 100% on this one though but it still looks ok. I really should have scrubbed all of the outside plastic with a Mr Clean pad and water.
There were quite a few Dell systems that use this same case. I love it, it works very well. You will see everyone of them very dusty and for good reason. The airflow in that case is a lot more than you might think for an OEM system and nobody ever blows out their OEM Dell system. Treat it like any other gaming rig and blow it out on a regular basis and it will be fine. I really believe if you are building a Micro-ATX system then this case is great. Usually you can get them for free or at most $5-10. You could easily mount the hard drive elsewhere and use the front air intake to duct fresh air to the video card and/or CPU. I might play with that.
My new i5 is waiting at home, I should have it in tonight!
EDIT:
Am I that bad of a typer or is autocorrect out to get me? Maybe it's ok now.
Gateway 2000 Case and 200-Watt PSU
Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard
Intel Pentium III 450 CPU
Micron 384MB SDRAM (3x128)
Compaq Voodoo3 3500 TV Graphics Card
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Sound Card
Western Digital 7200-RPM, 8MB-Cache, 160GB Hard Drive
Windows 98 SE