10-13-2012, 03:10 AM
(10-12-2012, 05:40 PM)kandrathe Wrote: Depending on the engineering of the case for air flow, sometimes certain components within the case depend on the side panel being in place. Then also, depending on where the case is located, you might have unwanted stuff that gets into the case (like for me, that includes pets and children). "No Kitty! Don't chew on that! >Zot<"
I don't have any small animals and my child knows to keep his hand away from the insides of my computer, but I had to plug the crappy fan back in. I didn't get a chance to buy a new one today.
All was well and good with my computer today with the case fan turned off, until I decided to play some Minecraft. After about 20 minutes, I started getting random black screens and artifacts. I was thinking that I got a bad video card, until I stuck my hand inside my case. It was all kinds of hot. The warm air from the CPU and GPU were just hovering there, even though the side panel was totally off. I plugged the noisy fan back in and everything was okay again.
The moral of the story is that I need to go buy a new case fan 2 weeks ago.