[mythtv-users] Fans, or cooling video cards
Raphael
rpooser at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 14:13:59 UTC 2009
Yan Seiner wrote:
> I have 3 video cards in my myth box. It gets a bit hot. I'm seeing
> strange corruption, which I'm guessing is heat related. At least it's
> appeared recently and the cards run 65 - 74 deg. C in normal use.
>
> The video cards are all half-height, and have passive heat sinks. With
> every slot in the server occupied, there's not much air circulation
> around those cards.
>
> I'm trying to rig some sort of fan that would sit over the top of the
> cards and blow air directly down on to them.
>
> I've found this gadget:
>
> http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-wherever-pci-rack.html
>
> but the reviews at Newegg aren't really encouraging.
>
If the reviews at newegg aren't encouraging, that means it's _really_
bad. You'd probably do better with a zalman fb-23:
http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=fb123
You can cram a couple of fans over your video card without difficulty.
The sunbeam rack looks a little clunky.
HTH
raphael
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