inCore
03-24-2008, 03:31 PM
A friend and I constructed something that we hoped would lower the temperatures of my 8800 GTS 512. It's basically a cardboard air tunnel mounted on top of the card with an external 60 mm exhaust fan. Pure genious. Extreme amounts of tape were used for this extreme mod.
I professionally checked the temperatures using HWMonitor and ran 3Dmark06 to prove how genious this mod really is.
Here are the temps:
With the fan turned OFF:
CPU Idle: 43 - 43
CPU Load: 63 - 63
GPU Idle: 49
GPU Load: 67
With the fan turned ON:
CPU Idle: 42 - 42
CPU Load: 63 - 60
GPU Idle: 48
GPU Load: 63
Already the idle temperatures speak for themselves - 1 degree benefits are not to be taken lightly. However, the load temperatures are just simply amazing, 4 degrees for the GPU and one of the cores (I dunno why one, non conformist CPU I suppose) of my CPU kept nice and cool(er).
Other stuff and trivia:
I have an E8400 @ 3.91 GHz and the fan speed of the GPU was set at 80% in Rivatuner.
When I had it at 45% and attempted the same professional review of my ingeniously engineered cooling utensil, my screen froze when my GPU reached a previously unseen 87 degrees Celsius. I'll be sure to save money in winter by turning off the heating and letting my family crowd around my computer.
So yes, this is the idea, it clearly works better than anything else ever made and I'm feeling too cheap to
1) Re-seat my stock heatsink which obviously fails at what it's doing
and
2) Buy a proper cooler.
That's all, first post at xtremesystems, I'll keep pushing it (Just watch, one day I will have mounted something the size of most people's cars to the back of my case), good bye.
inCore
I professionally checked the temperatures using HWMonitor and ran 3Dmark06 to prove how genious this mod really is.
Here are the temps:
With the fan turned OFF:
CPU Idle: 43 - 43
CPU Load: 63 - 63
GPU Idle: 49
GPU Load: 67
With the fan turned ON:
CPU Idle: 42 - 42
CPU Load: 63 - 60
GPU Idle: 48
GPU Load: 63
Already the idle temperatures speak for themselves - 1 degree benefits are not to be taken lightly. However, the load temperatures are just simply amazing, 4 degrees for the GPU and one of the cores (I dunno why one, non conformist CPU I suppose) of my CPU kept nice and cool(er).
Other stuff and trivia:
I have an E8400 @ 3.91 GHz and the fan speed of the GPU was set at 80% in Rivatuner.
When I had it at 45% and attempted the same professional review of my ingeniously engineered cooling utensil, my screen froze when my GPU reached a previously unseen 87 degrees Celsius. I'll be sure to save money in winter by turning off the heating and letting my family crowd around my computer.
So yes, this is the idea, it clearly works better than anything else ever made and I'm feeling too cheap to
1) Re-seat my stock heatsink which obviously fails at what it's doing
and
2) Buy a proper cooler.
That's all, first post at xtremesystems, I'll keep pushing it (Just watch, one day I will have mounted something the size of most people's cars to the back of my case), good bye.
inCore