The next next thing is u will see spiderman and cicakman LOL

haha.. then its important that you need to close your side panel if not the insect build kingdom in your cpu.. haha

I'll put some lego soldiers to protect my pc XD

after reading this thread, I will close my casing

well, maybe i will do it with my new rig.. since d old rig hav been like tat 4 ages.. thnk cant even find d cover already...

If spiders and geckos crawl inside your PC and set up camp, it simply means you are massively underutilizing your computer and your CPU core is less than the temp outside. If that is a cause for concern, then you should sell off your oversized "bug zapper" and buy something much smaller, and perhaps more energy efficient, such as the Apple Mac Mini.

dudes, i just leave the components on the table and hook them up. no casing involved!

j/k

how awesome would that be, though?

i heard from friend of mine told me a friend of his friend let his side panel opened and once a kumbang try to take a ride on the heatsink fan and the pc suddenly shut down, and i dont know what happened next.

Confirm the kumbang become history.RIP.

i vote yes
but my casing is still open casing

if u open casing must need to know clean up the dust lol

better close the case,keep clean dust

for me, open the casing have the advantage and disadvantage..
the advantage is it can help the airflow to be more good than before..
the disadvantage is the casing will dirty

ya thats rite.. most of the time i open the casing so that it will be cool but always need to clean up the dust.. but i will close the casing when bring my pc to LAN party.. haha

Open casing doesn't mean it will help the airflow.
If for bad airflow casing type, then yes.
But if for good airflow casing type, opening the sidepanel will only disrupt the entire airflow and the temp will even rise.

he article mention "radiation" from pc components! what kind of radiation? from where? if like tah u better block yr monitor with a piece of wood!

second that..for casing with worse airflow, maybe u need to open the sidepanel. but for my case, when i'm closing my sidepanel, the overall temperature (for proc, gc and chipset) will reduced around 2-3'c compared with opened sidepanel...means the airflow for closed sidepanel does really help a lot..

Got pic?Can show...hehe

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Added on February 20, 2008, 9:02 pmCan u try find a piece of transparent wood?haha..


This post has been edited by minghao: Feb 20 2008, 09:02 PM

from the first time i buy my pc to the first time i actually open my casing, there was not much dust.
after i open my casing due to heat problem, dust starts buidling up..

until on start up , my old p4 2.4 reaches 50C. just bit of w3 , it goes up to 60C. in the end, i remove the heat sink, remove the fan from heat sink, clean it with water , clean the fan with tissue, attach back, clean the contact area, put new termal paste, attached back the stuff, let it run.. temp goes down until 37c on start up, and nver goes more than 50c..

still open till now... my p4.2.4 is history, got a p4 2.6. the casing is open and being blown by using a table fan.

one thing i notice, if using a table fan, the heat sink fan actually lowers it RPM automatically..

Mine the first day till today..the temperature never goes up to 50 degree.AMD 754 socket version somemore.So far no probelm using it.