This case is aimed squarely at the high performance overclocking market. While cooling your processor and video card are important, many overclockers overlook the cooling of the case itself. Since your components are residing inside a case full of heat producing components, the ambient temperature inside that case becomes very important if you want to get the most out of your hardware. 

How does the Green Monster address this? Two ways actually, there is the obvious inclusion of all the fans, and there is the actual size of the case. You could pack as many fans as you wanted into a case, but if you didn't have sufficient room inside for good airflow, it would be an exercise in futility; this is where the case's size comes into play. With over 2800 cubic inches of internal volume there's plenty of room for air to circulate inside the Green Monster. So much room in fact, that you can likely get away with being a little sloppy with the internal cable routing and organization. No matter where you have your IDE cables, this case is going to be able to circulate air without a problem. It's big, but it's also got a lot of fans and that's where the case's real power lies. 

As you can see, the case has fans located near every heat-generating component, and also fans to intake cool air on the bottom, and blow out hot air on the top. You don't need a degree in thermodynamics to know that hot air rises, and the Green Monster's fans allow cooler air to be blown in from the bottom, pass over hot components and sap away some of their thermal energy, and be swept up and out of the case while more cool air circulates in. 

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