My FFXIV Case Mod

[Abriael]

Decent looking case mod, but you chose a rather bad base case. No front/top fans on modern hardware = very bad ventilation = components that will wear and tear much faster. Unless, of course, it's liquid cooled.

If it's not I sure hope you have good aftermarket CPU/GPU coolers inside that thing. Otherwise I'd bring the mod further open a square or round hole on top (just over the CPU) and one on front, fit two 120/200 mm on them covered by thin mesh to work as dust filtering. Front fan sucks air in, top sucks out.

Edit: I don't see screws on the side fan grill too, which probably means you don't even have a side fan. Not sure what hardware you have inside that case, but I have no doubt it's suffering. I'd put a side fan too, still sucking air in (position of the grill isn't the best on that case, as it's on the CPU, side fan is better placed on the GPU).

By the way, obsessive negative nancies are worse than trolls, mind you. But honestly, if you hate FFXIV this much, just gut that case, get an Antec ThreeHundred for less than 50 bucks, fit in all the fans it holds (one side, two front,sucking in, in addition to the back+top sucking out ones it has by default), and your hardware will thank you.