Cardboard 8800 GTS cooler

[HellasVagabond]

Your scythe should be 90 degrees on the left or right...The Fan should better cover all of the heatsink and not 80% of it....Thats why you should place it differently.. Cant you ?

[inCore]

Your scythe should be 90 degrees on the left or right...The Fan should better cover all of the heatsink and not 80% of it....Thats why you should place it differently.. Cant you ?

Getting the Scythe in was enough of a march through hell to demoralize further attempts - but I'll try sometime when the time seems right. It can be mounted either way (like this or 90 degrees either way) so it's not wrong. The northbridge cooler comes painfully close too (with the fan mounted, it would be buried alive and would never see sunlight again).

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Looks great, stick a thermometer in the construction and see how much the temperature above your card decreases/increases with the fan on and off.

"Pure genious" Word!!!

As if this wasn't enough, I'm even in possession of an awesome fan controller that will actually tell me temperatures inside my case. You read correctly. I placed one of them buggers underneath the cardboard and waddayaknow, 2-3 degrees lower temperatures with the fan turned on, just like that.

We will for now completely disregard the fact that the fan is louder than the combined force of a mixer, a vacuum cleaner from the 80's and an industrial hairdryer which can also be used to solidify cement, if necessary.

Note the stock E8400 CPU cooler mounted in front of the cooling device, blowing air across and through the whole artwork. I was also kind enough to include a diagram, which I skillfully made using paint, that fully shows the placement of my fans with their corresponding directions.

This computer is a cooling beast, only thing missing are the good results.

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More pictures below, over and out.

inCore