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by "back of the card" I mean on the stock cooler. That is where the air intake is for it, so if the fan is blowing there it will keep the whole cooler at a better temp then anywhere else. For that arctic cooler the bottom is where the outlet/inlet is. (don't know whether it blows down or up, but I see that the fins are exposed there)
 
that's alot of fans man. How many do you have in there?! I count 4 case fans just in view! (not counting the gpu, cpu and psu fans!) 8O

and that doesn't make too much noise? :?


...btw, you need to work on that wiring. lol 😉
 
ok well i am a little curious about your general flow of air. the upper part seems good, just blow air straight through, but the bottom, you have two fans blowing up into the graphics card. now on my card, the only openings are at the back, where the air is blown out, and the front, the intake. i suppose i could try and blow more air into the intake, but you must have a different intake than I.
how much is a third party vga cooler, and sync, and are we still saying that one fan blowing into the intake is as good?
 
well, i put two more fans in my case, similar air flow as Robsx2, but i put my lower fans blowing from the front of the case, into the intake of my gpu. also have another blowing on the side of the board, prob isnt doing much but i could so i did. in total, i have 5 fans, not including the one on the cpu, gpu, or the powersupply. It isnt very quite, but fear runs about 10 degrees C cooler than before. now it goes to 70s when i am playing fear at full everything. it idles around 50 C. i suppose i can up those clocks a bit now :)
 
sorry to revive an older post, but i was reading this article, and got curious
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/08/30/vga_heat_pipe_cooler_roundup_2006/page9.html
does this mean that the stock fan shouldnt be replaced if i just want to keep my vid card cooler without worrying about the sound?
does the ati stock fan run at full speed automatically, cause mine doesnt seem very loud....
so should i try to overclock with it? or would it be safer to get some aftermarket?

and finally on a side note, which oc utility would be easiest to start with?
 
by "easiest" I assume that would be to just use the overdrive within ccc. You do not have to install any other app and you can fiddle w/ it enough to decide if you want to go further.

and stock cooler/fan is fine. It does not run @ full speed but throttles it based on temp. You will probably never hear it go full speed except on boot. It takes a high temp to get full speed under operation. 😉
 
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