Slot Fan

[SneakyStuff]

As most of you already know, the temperatures have gotten a lot warmer outside, and so have the temps inside my pc I was concerned about my graphics card mainly, I have a PNY geforce FX 5700u, that when I got it around December, idled at 39' C, and maxed out at 50' C. Now it has risen to 48' C at idle, and 60' C load. I was thinking about installing a slot fan by dynatron to exhaust some of the heat from my system, but I had a problem, the fan on my video card sucks air IN, instead of exhausting it, and it passes it through copper foils to cool the card, if I put a slot blower that sucks air out of the case, lets say 1 or 2 PCI slots down from the card, would I be creating a heat vaccum? Thanks And I have a Dell, so my options are some-what limited

 

[EeyoreX]

I think you are better off without the slot fan. Assuming you mean a PCI card slot fan. In my experience all they do is make a lot of noise and make little or no difference in terms of cooling.

\Dan

 

[MikePanic]

^^^ agreed... never noticed anything but noise from t hem

 

[0roo0roo]

noise. better off with a side panel fan that blows over vid card. or a zalman bracket fan.

 

[SneakyStuff]

And I could get a zalman fan bracket with a dell case, that will work WITH my current video card fan, not against it?

 

[beatle]

I'd show you the thead with my cheap case fan bracket, but I can't seem to find it on the forum. I get more airflow this way at a much lower volume. IF you couple this with a larger heatsink for your video card, your gpu would run darn cool.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: beatle
I'd show you the thead with my cheap case fan bracket, but I can't seem to find it on the forum. I get more airflow this way at a much lower volume. IF you couple this with a larger heatsink for your video card, your gpu would run darn cool.

I've got your post under my favorites about the home-made fan bracket and yea, I was considering doing that, if I unplug my GPU fan, will the card give me warnings? because thats something I dont want

 

[0roo0roo]

if its too hot, it'll freeze, rather simple