[Boldeagle]

4. Case inflow increase;

I bought my Cooler Master Centurion 520 because of the front inlet filters, didn’t have a PSU and was at a good price. My front panel is completely lined with filtering material (works incredibly well as I shook it and had a thick dust cloud) and I only have the one 5 ½” hardware that left 4 empty bays where I could mount a 120mm inlet fan. I further removed the lower HDD rack to increase the lower fans inflow potential. But with my non-modular PSU, size limitations and lack of any channels cable management is a nightmare (I spent an hour trying to sort this during the project but to no avail). ElDonko has some of the best set-ups I have seen and now I can see why. I bet using a case “significantly” decreases “performance potential” by impairing CFM in air cooled systems.