Bottom Mounted PSU's ?

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I'm looking to build a new computer and I've seen a few cases with slots for bottom mounted PSU's. Are there any special considerations, or non-obvious pros and cons I need to be aware of before buying something like this?

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Length of the power cables and the fact that all of that heat rises into the rest of the case. It's pretty counter productive. There are a small few cases that have it on the bottom in it's own little chamber but really I see no advantage to bottom mount over standard.
 
I would say no advantage to bottom mounted other than the case comes that way... I have built 3 PCs with bottom mounted PSUs and never had heating issues(cable length not an issue either) ==> course all 3 had chimmney fans too and basically a very cooling solutions..
Which case are you looking at??
 
The antec 300 is the one that made me ask the question. I'm just looking for a cheap mid case. It just seems that with the PSU on the bottom, if it has a bottom fan port it wouldn't get a lot of airflow. So I was curious if there was anything else I should think about.
 
i have a corei7 oc'd to 3.6ghz with ONE front case fan atm and i haven't had a single problem with heat. Im using a corsair 750 psu.

cpu idles aroudn 40c and load around 70, another front fan would prolly drop that a few degrees. as far as the psu goes, these temps are about avg for most people from what i've seen so i can't see that my psu is causing any extra heat concerns.

using the antec 300 btw
 
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