How high can you go?

[SteveC]

TheMorg - Those supermimcro cases are beautiful! But I am never going to spend that much on just a box for the rest of my bits!

For OCing - I use powerstrip - works a treat. My fan's blowing both side of the card, which might help with cooling the reverse of it, but I have nothing special on it.
And yes, we are suggesting peppering the side of my case with a machine gun, sorry, drill. Might make some sort of funnel for the air too.

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[mragsdale]

Why not just cut a big hole and use a speaker cover to keep the dust out. Just like paul's?
Matt

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Yes, I am serious and don't call me Shirley

[SteveC]

Um, I will 'attempt' to make the holes in some sort of pattern so it looks OK, but if it goes all wrong, then I will end up doing what Pauly did.

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[Opus]

Hehe.

I did a nifty hole pattern (6mm dia drill bit, I think) on my full tower's side panel similar to the one for the ATX PSU fan. Just make sure there are no metal filings that will be spayed around the inside (your floppies won't like them). I also drilled 4 holes as well to bolt the fan onto it (it comes with long detachable PS leads).

If you live in a barn or have bad dandruff/athlete's foot/crabs (delete appropriate) then use some sort of filter - note: I'm not saying that Paul has anything like that but...

Sorry SteveC, the fan I picked up had only 2 leads but I know when it's not working...

Cheers

[Opus]

Hehe.

I did a nifty hole pattern (6mm dia drill bit, I think) on my full tower's side panel similar to the one for the ATX PSU fan. Just make sure there are no metal filings that will be spayed around the inside (your floppies won't like them). I also drilled 4 holes as well to bolt the fan onto it (it comes with long detachable PS leads).

If you live in a barn or have bad dandruff/athlete's foot/crabs (delete appropriate) then use some sort of filter - note: I'm not saying that Paul has anything like that but...

Sorry SteveC, the fan I picked up had only 2 leads but I know when it's not working...

Cheers

[Opus]

Hehe.

I did a nifty hole pattern (6mm dia drill bit, I think) on my full tower's side panel similar to the one for the ATX PSU fan. Just make sure there are no metal filings that will be spayed around the inside (your floppies won't like them). I also drilled 4 holes as well to bolt the fan onto it (it comes with long detachable PS leads).

If you live in a barn or have bad dandruff/athlete's foot/crabs (delete appropriate) then use some sort of filter - note: I'm not saying that Paul has anything like that but...

Sorry SteveC, the fan I picked up had only 2 leads but I know when it's not working. If you've got an old AT/ATX PSU you can use the fan out of that too.

Cheers

Whoops! Sorry for the multiple postings...


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[TheMorg]

Caught an overclockers' case review over at TechZone. It's got some novel ideas as to where to stick fans, but it reduces heat in their test system from 100F to 84F under serious load.

<a href="http://thetechzone.com/reviews/case/amk0334_2.htm">http://thetechzone.com/reviews/case/amk0334_2.htm</a>

I'm not suggesting you buy it, but it might give you some ideas about where/how to drill, if you're determined to dismember your case.

by the way, how do you embed images in these posts?

[merchant2]

rickt and steve. i did some reading (feq asked qestions on powerstrips page) they say that some companys only use one clock and tie both the memory and chip core to it. useing a 2/3 divisor. so that when you adjust the memory clock you also adjust the core clock.

i tend to read every thing i can before trashing my system

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Waiting for g400 to show up, while i go slowly insane. I don't have a warped mind do i?

noel

[ALBPM]

This shows my homemade version of the Card Cooler for the video cards. I had to make mine longer for the Obsidian2 X-24 card which is almost 11 inches long.

This one shows my latest addition which is the VEK-12 PII cooler. With two 60mm fans it works great.


This shows the car stereo speaker grill which covers the hole I needed to
cut in the side to make room and for airflow for the two 80mm fans for the graphics card cooler. I have since lined the inside of the speaker grill with very thin foam air conditioner filter to keep the dust and dog hair out.(and Opus)

As I post this, the internal case temp is 29.2 deg C or 84.7 deg F. Room temp is 25.3 deg C or 77.5 deg F. My system has been on for 4 hours and I have been playing Q2 online for about 1 hour before the temp reading. My case temp usually runs about 6-8 degrees F above room temp. Before these mods my case temp would get up to 115 degF or 46.11 degC.

Paul


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[SteveC]

OK Guys, you remember this:


Well, instead of making holes in the side of my case, I noticed some holes at the back of my case... well, with the help of some card, scissors and pritt-stick...



Now, is that classy or what?

It's sucking in air from the back of my PC, so cold air is blown over the g400/cpu. If it don't work I'll be making holes in the side of my case....

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[SteveC]

OK, next installment of my DIY cooling.

Ages ago I reversed the fan in my PS, but never realised till now that because the fan is now blowing air out, instead of sucking it out, it was blowing how air out of a row of ventilation holes right onto my CD drives - so....



I've also reversed the fan next to my g400 so it blows air out the back. So I now have two streams of hot air out of the back of my PC, and one fan at the front sucking cool air in.

But, has any of this helped? The answer is NO! My PC is now hotter than it ever has been! Back to the drawing board I think! (Mobo temp: 45 degrees C, CPU temp 55 degrees C)

Also, I have measured the g400's temp - the back of the ciruit board is around 10 degrees C hotter than the heatsink... I think there's a slight design fault there.

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Cheers,
Steve
It's Only A Graphics Card!
(But a damn good 'un!)

[rickT]

voyager: how did you get a 143mhz core on a 190mhz memory speed. At 190mhz mem with powerstrip it is 127mhz core.

I got my mem to 200mhz and it said the core speed was 133mhz. Whats the damn deal here?

[Quantum]

Ok, let's bring this back to O/C'ing the G400, and away from "Let's stick a million fans in one PC case" After re-installing Powerstrip, I could OC to 185 no worries, but go to 190, and Q2 just locks up, hard reboot time. I have no fan on the G400, just a slot fan in the 2nd PCI slot, as it is a little too close in the first one. I MAY consider adding a fan to the G400, but 53.5 fps in Q2 at 1024, with no optimisations is good enough for me. Now, if only I could get AvP to run....

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[Kooguy]

Hehe, I like your home version of the Card Cooler. Are the fans powerful? The *ahem* real Card Cooler is really strong. You probably get better results than I do because I didn't make that nice filter on the side of my case. I also can't fit that fan on the bottom of the PSU because my Celery Whopper is too god damn huge!

[paulcs]

My G400 is a wimp. I got severe artifacts clocking the memory at 180 MHz. (I believe the core was at 133.) Could be a heat issue. I have a single front panel fan blowing in and two fans on the back blowing out.

Did some quick benchmarks, and my framerates in Quake2 actually went down a bit.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net