Gentlemen, I Wouldn't Trust This Overgrown Pile Of Microchips Any Further Than I Can Throw It

For those who've never had the pleasure of being in Fredericton in the summer, the weather here has a habit of constantly being in a state that's best described as "hot and humid&; (with occassional interludes of "torrential downpour").  It was during one of these particular hot and humid streaks that I decided to use my TV tuner for the first time in months

It all started off well enough.  The video window came up, I had sound, and then I had a completely frozen system with sound continuing to come out of speakers.  Cursing profusely, I hit reset.  As it runs through the boot-up memory test, I suddenly realise what the problem could be and enter the BIOS.  A quick check of the hardware monitor screen confirms it:  the TV tuner, which gets rather hot, has combined with the ambient temperature to push my CPU up past the 70 degree auto-shutoff limit I had set.

Now, I couldn't add any more fans, since my case was designed to only hold two fans: one intake and one exhaust.  Buying an exahust fan that sat a card slot wasn't an option either, as the only slot that could be freed up is, due to the design of the motherboard, cluttered by audio-related cables that plug in right below the CNR slot.  So I took a trip down to Thriftking with Dmitrii, and looked at getting a new case that would allow me to add a fan or two.

Of the cases I looked at, most had to be rejected as they wouldn't fit under my desk, due largely to the decision to place a handle on the top of a wide variety of them.  Others were rejected due to issues with my motherboard, since a pair of capacitors are located such that two of the 5 1/4" drive bays in a standard tower case are unusable.  Out of the few that were left, several weren't in stock, and others were just a bit more expensive than I wanted to pay, especially since I didn't need a new power supply.  The end result is that I now have a new case, I finally got to throw out the mini-tower that was housing hermod, and I now have more USB ports than I could ever conceivably use.

And no, it doesn't have lights on the inside.

Two points.