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Originally Posted by glc
Your rear fans should be exhaust and the side fan should be intake.
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It is like that now but I changed them up to try and get hot air off the card cooler since that side panel fan was directly over the video card cooler. I figured I would try and suck the hot air out (which it was very hot) and used to 2 rear ones to sort of balance the intake. I tried these both ways with this cooler and it was still too hot. The cooler is nice, but the design was flawed where it should have the air exit off the card. It is so close to the motherboard where the air exits the card that I can't even fit my finger between the cooler and the motherboard. That sort of direct flow of hot air off this hot card right onto a mofset on the motherboard is not a good idea.
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What really helped my temps was a 80mm fan ziptied to the end of the card blowing air down horizontaly through the card.
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So you modified the video card cooler to make it cool good? Maybe that is what I needed to do. Either way, shouldn't have to do that. Paid money for a vga cooler that works with my entire machine w/o modification. Oh well. My review stands, lol.
Newegg.com reviews
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Custra...82E16835186002
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Last edited by Turbo91Bird; 07-26-2006 at 01:10 PM.
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