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In my quest to figure out how to cool down my gpu to keep its jet turbine from making my pc airborne I thought of something. Why not cool from the backside of the pcb? I did some research and found the thermalright hr-11 http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_page/product_page/vga/hr11/product_vga_cooler_hr11.htm . I read reviews and it did seem to help the temps a hair. So I went on my quest to do the same.

Found some old fans, looked up part numbers and found the one with the most cfm(~23) to use. A 60mm case fan looks like it could actually be rigged to bolt to the gpu's heatsink mounts but I personally do not want to go that far.

I used foam to space the fan off the backside of the graphics card with screws pushed through the foam for rigidity and placing electrical tape on the "feet" to keep from shorting anything out.



Now time for the test. Idle test was at gpu fan speed 40% for about 10 minutes, load test was fan set to 60% running through full unigine benchmark. Also before I get to the test, in case you cant see from the pictures, I have my afterburner unofficialoverclock set to a value of 2 to keep max clocks.

No extra fan at idle


Extra fan at idle


As you can see there isn't anything to brag about just a ~3 degree difference.

No extra fan at load


Extra fan at load


This test shows a greater difference of ~7 degree difference!

I am sure with some fine tuning I can bring it to a double digit margin.

Picked up my legit copy of mass effect 3 and had already dled another version just so I don't have to use fucking origin. Tried to use origin but it causes a fuckton of problems.

I finally finished my jtag xbox using the transistor method then the *female dog* booted once and the board literally went up in smoke as a capacitor fried.

Yeah, I hear you . If it wasn't for the fact I love playing emulators on my PS3 I would update it as well.

it's gotten so bad i been thinking about updating my ps3 

Indeed the softmod community has gone into some what of a seclusion. So fu©k it.

The main thing I've been modding is my ASUS TF101 and my Samsung Galaxy S. At least that's still alive and kicking.

wax, first time will be painful but every time after that will be ok. also dont put nair on your balls you will want to bme pain olympics them to get the burning to stop

I should post some pics of my new monster. I score like 200 points more than on my old system but quad core helps in some load situations. That score with only 200 point over the over system was just my 450 but with both my 450 and 8800 in it, it scores like 600-700 more points because I have the 8800 as my dedicated physx card.

AMD Phenom x4 2.6 OC'd to 3.2
8 gig DDR2 G Skill RAM
1 tb seagate hard drive
LG Blu-ray / HD-DVD with litescribe
700 watt BFG PSU
XFX Radeon HD 4770 grafix card - (upgraded to XFX HD6870) a while back forgot to postup
mini atx Gigabyte motherboard
all wrapped up in a Sunbeam UFO UV blue clear case

BOOST

Got's me a new rig.

CPU- AMD APU 3850X4
Mainboard- Gigabyte GA-A75-G3H
Ram- 8GB Patriot 667 DDR3
Graphics 1- EVGA 450 GTS
Graphics 2- XFX 8800 GT
Case- Cooler Master HAF 922
HDD- Seagate 500GB
PSU- Cooler Master GX650
CD/DVD Drive- Lite-on bluray rewriter
Wifi Adapter- RaLink 1.3.2 B/G Adapter
Windows 7 Ultimate X64 bit

It originally had a ATI 6670 in it but I got tired of trying to get the hybrid crossfire to run in it so I put my badass cards in it.