The case had 8 120mm holes, 4 hand grip holes, and 2 huge gaps for ventalation. I run a holmes hepa filter to cool it and pressurize the inside of the case, then all the holes are covered with the exception on my selected vents to circulates the air. Air comes in the upper right side flowing over the cpu and memory elimanating any fans in the case, This also creates positive pressure inside of the case where it will remain dust free. Then it is forced out the video card (at 4 times the normal rate the video card can cool itself at 100%) and under the motherboard, then flowing over the harddrive heat sinks and exiting out the back of the power supply. My mock up was all duct tape to get the flow right but the case looked horrible. After I install my power supply and motherboard I will be able to trim and glue the rest of it on. Carpet was the best solution for a permanent fix for my air flow design. Final design will be a clear front all the rest will be carpeted, with cold cathodes in the top half and 5 led strip bars built in the sides to illuminate all the plexi edges, thats why i did not wrap around the front corners. When I get finished, I will post up the pics of the final system so you can see the fit, finish, and functionality of it. Last I had it hooked up with water, my idle and full load temp varied by 4-5C and that was with the holmes filter on the lowest setting.
I always like water systems, but it cluters the inside. I liked the new mineral oil system, but it requires a radiator, pump, and fans. Regular case create nothing but a warm air loop with all the fans pointing every which way, plus they build up dust on the inside. So I'm going for the cleanest open look I can come up with, plus while the computers on the desk, my air filter is 3 feet awany on the cold floor. If I can keep my head in the game to finish the rest with all the detail I have in mind, I should be able to win rig of the month at guru3d. If these damn computer case designers were so smart they would make a case that comes with a seperate air filter to cool the whole case eliminating fans and dust all together.
If I had any know how of the whole designing a case, I would create a case with a 5" intake hole designed to flow thru a case to cool everything, then have it vent out a 2 or 3" hole to create a positve pressure inside with a floor mounted fan/filter unit. You could take the computer building world by storm with mass amounts of air flow that could not be achieved by any amount of fans in your case, and the promise of 100% dust free case. Seeing those morons that think shinny, 12 fans, and lights is better then a well designed airflow case I decided to make my own.
I hate doing budget builds 
