Hard Ball
Senior member
I have this mobo:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=asusnf4pro&page=3
for my dual opteron workstation, which coincidentally also houses a overclocked 7800GTX.
This has beena great mobo, rock solid, and has all the features that I would ever need (sans SCSI); but the problem is that with two CPU sockets aligned vertically, it forces me to put put the GF card near the bottom of the case; and I also have two PCI cards right below it in the two slots. The 7800GTX is also an extremely long card, which almost goes the entire width of the board. Some times, the hot air gets trapped near the bottom of the case, because the air from that pseudo compartment at the bottom does not flow freely with the rest of the case upward from the graphics card.
I have put 80mm fans whereever i could, and right now threre are 6 case fans running, keeping most of the case very cool and ventilated, not so for the part below the graphics card. What I need is some type of ventilation within the case, facilitating the vertical airflow so that air does not become trapped at the bottom. I was thinking about getting a fan mounted onto an expansion slot cover, that blows vertically within the case; it would also has to be mounted in such a way as for the fan to be lifted away from the motherboard, so the path of the fan would clear the width of the graphics card itself; does anyone here know of a company that sells an implementation close to this??
Also, does anyone have a different solution?? I'm all ears.
Please, please, let me know.
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=asusnf4pro&page=3
for my dual opteron workstation, which coincidentally also houses a overclocked 7800GTX.
This has beena great mobo, rock solid, and has all the features that I would ever need (sans SCSI); but the problem is that with two CPU sockets aligned vertically, it forces me to put put the GF card near the bottom of the case; and I also have two PCI cards right below it in the two slots. The 7800GTX is also an extremely long card, which almost goes the entire width of the board. Some times, the hot air gets trapped near the bottom of the case, because the air from that pseudo compartment at the bottom does not flow freely with the rest of the case upward from the graphics card.
I have put 80mm fans whereever i could, and right now threre are 6 case fans running, keeping most of the case very cool and ventilated, not so for the part below the graphics card. What I need is some type of ventilation within the case, facilitating the vertical airflow so that air does not become trapped at the bottom. I was thinking about getting a fan mounted onto an expansion slot cover, that blows vertically within the case; it would also has to be mounted in such a way as for the fan to be lifted away from the motherboard, so the path of the fan would clear the width of the graphics card itself; does anyone here know of a company that sells an implementation close to this??
Also, does anyone have a different solution?? I'm all ears.
Please, please, let me know.
