Do you keep your Side Panel on?

[MacJunky]

A previous case I had was not wide enough to permit use of the side panel with my heatsink(it has a huge area behind the mobo tray) so with that the side panel was always off.
With my current case I have the side panel off now and then while screwing around in some way or another but it is generally on.. Except I had to remove the fan in the side panel because of heatsink clearance issues. :/

[Birk]

Seems to me everytime i put my side panels on i'll need to get in there for one reason or another so its just easier for me to always have it off, i always feel and check temps on differant parts but its always cool, I've got 2 x 200mm fans, 4x 120mm fanes and 1 x 140mm fan all going and my GPU and CPU are under water.

[JMCD]

Always on. Silverstone Raven = meant for air cooling.

[Supergrover]

Originally Posted by Birk

Seems to me everytime i put my side panels on i'll need to get in there for one reason or another so its just easier for me to always have it off, i always feel and check temps on differant parts but its always cool, I've got 2 x 200mm fans, 4x 120mm fanes and 1 x 140mm fan all going and my GPU and CPU are under water.

Time to get a temp probe unit

Though i dont use them anymore, No lights (but the pwr/hdd) and no window. I dont use a odd anymore but when I was with this case then it was covered.
While I tried to build this build with some form of symmetry inside no one ever see's inside but me and then only to clean or reset. Meh I could have gone pink on the inside and no one would know.

[MARSTG]

Originally Posted by supaflyx3

off, keep a very large desk fan blowing on my GPU all teh time :)

that is because your case has no side vent

[BADPhoenix]

At the moment I keep my 800D's side panel slightly open, as I have a Gentle Typhoon placed near the cards to reduce heat (EVGA GTX 590 + ASUS Matrix GTX 580 for PhysX)