hot and noisy video card

[kaltag]

Hey I've finally gotten my rig with water cooling down in the low 30c range and the only real noise makers are the hdd and hsf on the geforce 4. i've got the hdd under control but i want to know how to cool the geforce on air and keep it below 30db and here's the kicker, i want the temp to stay below 40c. I've got a blue orb now and man is it noisy! the card is currently running 43c. any and all suggestions welcome! thanx fellas :)

[toastedzergling]

I used to superglue a 80mm 22dba fan to the Geforce heatsink, worked great.
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[wildfrogman]

Use arctic silver epoxy. Its pretty cheap and works very well at sticking on heatsinks. I would if possible find an old heatsink ~as large as possible heatsink that you can use on the gpu and then epoxy it on. Then i would get vents in the sidepanel~fans blowing air on the video card so most all the air blows on the video card~north bridge chipset, ram area.

[Nico3k]

lol... u already have a warecooling system... whats keeping your from watercooling your graphics card ?!??!?!??!?!!?!?

[kaltag]

as i mentioned in the origianl explanation i want to use air since my radiator and fan aren't enough to handle 2 cpus and video. anyone else? if i use the superglue what heatsink would you guys recommend? keeping in mind i want it to look nice as in polished/anodized.

[CrystalMethod]

http://www.cooljag.com/product/313c/313c.html


Drill, and mount to taste...

[kaltag]

how quiet is the cool jag?

[Darkside]

i just 7volted my gpu fan, it's still cool enough and the fan becomes silent.

[kaltag]

if it helps the gpu is running at 40-43c right now and since i wanted to get it below 40 i don't think slowing the fan down is going to help much. :)

[wildfrogman]

Quote from kaltag,
"as i mentioned in the origianl explanation i want to use air since my radiator and fan aren't enough to handle 2 cpus and video. anyone else? if i use the superglue what heatsink would you guys recommend? keeping in mind i want it to look nice as in polished/anodized."

Whatever you do dont use superglue, it would be enough to kill the video card as it would insulate the gpu~ram and bake it. AS alumina epoxy is cheap and works really well without worrying about shorting out traces etc. Hope this saves you some trouble.

[kaltag]

by superglue i meant the arctic silver adhesive, guess that wasn't a given...oh well.