[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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