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Good or bad to leave the side off of the case?

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I was just wondering, is it good or bad for your PC to leave the side off when it's running, 

Cooler air comes in all the time, but then again there's no direct flow through the case now.... Hmmmm... Discussion time

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The possiblity of stuff getting into it is greater but I wouldn't have thought it would be bad, if anything it won't be recommended lol

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If you're careful nothing bad will happen, but it'll get dusty.

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Watch out for dust and spills. That's about it.

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My PC right now... In the middle of a major re-think about my fan situation

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It shouldn't be a problem and also dust won't harm anything, just make sure your temperatures are fine. My Cooler Master 335U Elite is like a damn vacuum cleaner, it gathers dust inside to really stupid levels so I have to keep on top of it.

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A non issue, but clean it before you seal it back up 'cos dust gonna be settling in there.

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Bad for dust good for open air cooling

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Its bad in the presence of flying USB thumb drives :P

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My custom PC which is a Thermaltake Overseer RX-I which is made for airflow, and I even added another 200mm blued LED fan on top, took the 120mm on the back and put it on the bottom and the back is my Corsair H60.

My 3 year old Dell however, only has 1 rear fan and air cooled so the side is off.

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Umm not wise unless you cant avoid it.

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There's a few reasons I wouldn't do it. 

-The risk; no matter how small, that something might end up falling into the interior of my case and do some damage.

-Increased dust build up. it might be easy to access the interior to clean it, but it's more cleaning to do and I'm lazy.

-cases are designed to have their side panels on. removing the side panel can allow the case to flex, then bad things might happen.

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Airflow is generally very tightly engineered and relies on the case sides to get the correct flow pattern so removing the side panel MAY give you less cooling effect than leaving it on. [1]

Case sides also cut down on the amount of RF transmitted so will reduce possible interference. 

To combat these and the (no matter how careful you are) risk of things ending up within the case I would allways run the system with the sides on. 

However will probably do no damage, especially in the short term, so don't get to uptight about it.

 

[1] A long time ago I had a shroud over the processor (back in the BTX was popular days) so if the side wasn't on air would have been sucked from the side erather than over the processor

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