[Lonely Raven]

I don't like badmouthing anyone, especially someone trying
to make a living....but 3dcool screwed me over with some
half asses equipment and wouldn't even fess up to the error,
let alone try and work with me on trying to rectify it.

As for top blow holes, I think you have plenty of great advice
here. I'd like to add my own .02 if nobody minds.

First off, different cases will react to different cooling methods
differently. I had one case that I really loved, but for some odd
reason no matter how many fans I threw at it, it just had a
crazy high ambient temp. The solution was actually to REDUCE
the number of fans, and block off all the vents except one fan
inlet, and two fan outlets (120mm in pair of 80s + PSU out).
The results were astonishing! I dropped 7c ambients with LESS
fans, but a well sealed case. The drawback was that it was
sucking air (and dust) in through my floppy drive. I wound up
ditching the floppy drive all together since I only use the bastard
when I'm building or diagnosing a PC.

Remember, if you can, try everything once and document the
results as you go along. Keep a pad for notes and plenty of
writing impliments about (Note, this also helps for songwriting
and poetry as well) and jot down even the smallest detail. I find
that often, I'll go over all my mad notes much later and see
corilations I didn't (and wouldn't) have caught earlier, or while
I was concentrating on important things like not sticking my
fingers into fans or dropping screwdrivers on live system boards.

Me personally though, I don't like the blow hold on the top. I'll
do anything to avoid the "stove top" look. But that's just me.