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Hello Tom - 

TW>>> I do in effect the same thing with Two of my Computers.
TW>>> Except I leade the Side Cofer off. :-) 

->> I was told some time ago that leaving the side cover off
->> does not allow the fan(s) to pull the air across the drives
->> and other heated parts of the machine as it was intened to
->> do when the case is closed. I therefore pull the cables out
->> the back where I can easilly manipulate them. :-) 

TW> It does seriously disturbe the Cooling Air Flow but IF you
TW> don't havew a Case jammed FULL there is little to worry
TW> about. In botyh it is a Full Tower machine with lots of
TW> room for Convection cooling. And the Hard Drives are Not
TW> installed adjacent ot each other so the Lower one dosen't
TW> heat up the one above it. 

'Convection cooling'? 

Seriously, leaving the side cover off is not a good thing to do. 

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