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I just bought the most versatile tool ever. Why? Case modding of course!! I have been having cooling problems with my AMD 1.4 T-Bird but i struck a damaging blow to the heat by buying the dremel. I cut 3 holes into my case. Here's the fan setup: I now have 2 fans sucking air out the back, 2 fans blowing in from the side(one on top of the other), 1 slot fan sitting right under my Geforce 2, and a monster 120mm fan sucking cool air from the front of my case. I had to use 5 cutting wheels just for 120mm hole!!! I also mostly took care of the "bird's nest" of wires. What did I acheive? About 2-3C cooler case temps and a MB temp of around 25 at idle!! It used to idle at 28C!! And my CPU temps? Well i can finally run at full clock, no more 800 MHZ!! My CPU idles at 48C and under load it has only reached 52C!! That's alot better than the 58C I was hitting before! I would like to thank all you guys for helping out someone who's "still feeling around in the dark" when it comes to PC modding and cooling. And i promise I will never laugh at anyone who says that case airflow is key to system cooling. My next step is to find some rounded IDE cables, unless someone has advice on how to modify mine wothout discombobulating them. Thanks again everybody.

should have invested your money in a rat tailed file and a jigsaw... i did 3 window mods with 1 blade not talkin' small windows either.

luckily my blades only cost $11.00 Canadian cash for 36 blades!!

i got 6 for the jigsaw for 5 bucks... US and still have all 6

how much was the jigsaw? By the way the dremel can sand, polish, cut, clean............what else does a jigsaw do?

With a jigsaw you can:
1. Saw
2. Saw
3. Saw
and
4. Saw

30-40 bucks will get you a decent one to do case mods with. We're talking oscillating variable speed and the blade rolls on a notched bearing to keep it stable... Thats what the 3 dollar rat tail file is for. Or some 25 cent 200 grit sand paper... dremels are overrated and a pain i nthe ass and oh do they take forever and a day to cut with... it took me all of 20 min to draw out and cut the 2 windows in my chieftec case... And i had them deburred in that time also Fan holes are a breeze with a jigsaw. If ya want it easier use a hole saw and a drill...

Kal-EL6 / PreDatoR:

It's good to be back home from Hawaii. After being away from my machines for a month, I've found that I missed them so much.... Ok, enough about that. For cutting holes in the case, I've found that metal shears or "tin snips" work great. I once posted a link to where you could buy these heavy duty shears, but that was about a year ago. They don't wear out (at least, not yet), and you cut right through the metal with precision and finese. As with any cutting job, you still need to file down the sharp edge, but overall, they can't be beat.