I agree, but it's not worth it to me to transplant the system to a new case. Before I added the video card the system was cool and quiet enough. I clipped out the grill on the case fan, swapped the fan for a Zalman Quiet Fan, blew out the dust bunnies out of the CPU cooler, covered over the vent abo...

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I bought an HP Elite i7 system last year. I have been pretty happy with it overall. At Christmas I installed an MSI GTX460 with the Cyclone cooler. The cooler exhausts internally and the card runs at about 75-80C under load at stock clocks. I can feel a stripe of heat along the side of the case wher...