HDD prices are BS right now. If you can keep from buying one do so.. However I can get 2tb Caviar Black drives for $90 he he he!

SSD is in the mail, should be here in a week. the green drive works well enough, im getting a decent enough data transfer rate. and cant argue with the price, it was 90$ for a 2TB. its scoring a 5.9 on the windows rating system, good enough for me most of what it will be holding is music and movies anyway, i dont need super fast transfer rates for that, everything important will be going on SSD drives once they arrive.

as for the cables in the bottom, I bought a PSU designed for tripple SLI, havent gotten the other two cards yet, so theres nowhere for the cables to go untill i have the cards installed. i can probly clean it up a bit, but nothing is blocking a fan, airflow isnt impeded, and everything is running right, so i really dont see a need in messing with it right now. once i get my other cards installed i clean it up some more.

the intake is in the rear of the case and exhaust is at the front. i actually find it running cooler that way than when i had it configured for the rear exhaust. right now im running at around 25C with a front exhaust vs 29C on rear exhaust, also its keeping my ram cooler. in the coming weeks ill be adding top and bottom exhaust as well.

Intake should always be the front of the case and vent out the top and highrear side of the case. Heat goes up and if your PC is against the wall the PSU below will be blowing heat up and your rear intake will blow it back into the case.

Why triple SLI? Nothing is going to fully use all that and shit you could put the money towards an aparment with all the cash your blowin on a pc.. what are you gunna end up at? about 3k?

as i said, im getting lower numbers with a front exhaust than if i had a rear exhaust. i dont know whats doing it, i know it flies in the face of common sense, but its working for me.

as for tripple SLI, its not neccicary yet, but i fold when im not using the computer. more GPUs, more folds per hour i can do the more it helps. eventually it will be neccicary that i have 3 cards, but im not buying them all right away, ill have the second 2 months from now, the third probly within 6 months. yeah, i could probly do somthing else with my money, do i want to, no.