well i havent opened mine up completely... i just know that to cool the heatsinks down... you gotta pull air from back to front (or vice versa... if you try to cool from the top... it would be like putting a fan blowing on a single fin of a heatsink:
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air would simply be hittin a fin... and not going through all the fins
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