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You know, I wish I started off with a rackmount setup. After the years, I've become heavily invested in lots of tower configs and related paraphernalia. The cost of doing similar in a rack setup would be very high and then selling everything wouldn't even come close to making up the costs. If I started with a rack and just kept investing in it, I'd be much happier today, I think. I dabble a in water cooling but I'm not that passionate about it. I'm much happier with loads of storage and nice LAN capabilities than squeezing the last drops of mhz from a CPU. I'd ditch water for an easier to maintain rack setup in a sec if I could somehow just swap everything for an equivalent setup for no charge .
My wife had a cooler master with the same kind of front (perforated) and it's a major dust magnet because of the airflow, no way I would ever buy a Cosmos!
It's not a dust magnet, it's a dust stopper. All that dust would be running through your PC if the filters were not there. I have a Coolermaster Elite which also has a perforated front. It does collect dust, but every couple of days I just either vacuum it off or blow it off with canned air. I appreciate it not filling my video card, CPU heatsink, and PSU with dust. They still get the micro dust that makes it through those filters, but that never builds up fast enough to really cause a problem. I was considering replacing the simple filters with something that would stop most/all of the dust, but that would probably really hinder my airflow.
But, if you don't want the air running through that area, you can just close it off with a simple piece of paper, or anything else that would block the airflow through the perforated bay covers.