Ziggy54354 Posted February 24, 2003 Posted February 24, 2003 (edited) Ok, well, i got this crazy idea and i don't know if itll work or not. Anyways i was looking through articles online about this product that is suppose to cool your video card off buy sucking air away from it by mounting on the back of your card. This gave me an idea. What if instead of blowing air away, additional air was blown into the already used fan on the VPU. Im not talking about like 10 cmf of air. Lets say like 50 cfm of air. This is what i plan. Allow room by using 2 pci slots. ok put a modem or something into the 2nd slot and put a fan on top of that (im thinking smartfan or something) and use adhesive pads to mount it on the card. The fan should cover alot of the 1st slot and blow air to the agp card. How do you people think this will work? I'd try it myself but im a poor bastard and if any of u guys could give me feedback thatd be cool. Edited February 24, 2003 by Ziggy54354 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
statix6900 Posted February 24, 2003 Posted February 24, 2003 isnt the air being pulled away from it better you no like the fridge effect where it removes the heat??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psywar Posted February 24, 2003 Posted February 24, 2003 I think hes refering to the AGP Air Lift, from highspeedpc.com.. I have one.. and I made my own.. they work well.. and yes.. takeing the heat and pushing it off the card is better then pushing it at the card.. Unless ur using a huge heatsink with a fan.. now if ur pushing air on the heatsink that is better.. but if ur just blowing air at the card.. you want to eminate heat by pulling it off.. If you wanna do something cheap.. grab urself a 60 to 80 Fan converter.. or 80 to 120.. or 80 to 90.. put the bigger fan on.. and then set the smaller side on the back side of the agp card.. U can get rubber feet if u would like to make sure it stays in place.. its a pain if u move ur comp around alot.. but.. it does work very well.. I cant really say it did more then lower the temp 2 or 3 degrees.. but.. when I used it I was very aware of my temps all the time.. It even lowerd the cpu temp a bit since it sat under the cpu and blew up under it.. not much like 1/2 to 1 degree.. but.. hey its all good.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy54354 Posted February 25, 2003 Posted February 25, 2003 (edited) Exactly what do you mean by huge, do you mean heat pipe huge or stuff that comes on Gainward Geforce4 ti4400 golden sample (which i was i plan to get ) Edited February 25, 2003 by Ziggy54354 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acid Storm Posted February 25, 2003 Posted February 25, 2003 If you have a fan duct it would be alright, but otherwise you would just obstruct the moving air from the gpu fan by creating an different airflow around it so the heat is somewhat traps. A fan duct would never hurt. the problem is that you couldn't get 50cfm because the gpu fan is to small to to let that amoung of air through. it will defenetly run a lot faster. I saw someware someone who just put a fan ontop of his card no crews or anything. just with little protection pads to rais the fan just above it aswell. this cools your card quit nicely. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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