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- May 12, 2003
Hi all!
Has anybody ever bothered to try cooling from the backside of a board; such as installing fans underneath hot spots like CPU, GPU, MOSFETS, northbridge, etc?
I've thought about throwing a fan on the back of my GF4 to spot cool the GPU from underneath, but I wonder if it will even have any impact. I don't have my DigiDoc5 back in yet, but I might try this out and if it helps at all consider some other spots.
Just wondering if this is a dumb idea I guess Is much heat ever able to radiate through a PCB anyway?
edit: Okay, the underside of this GPU has always gotten really hot, so I guess it's fairly obvious a good deal of heat is making it through.
Has anybody ever bothered to try cooling from the backside of a board; such as installing fans underneath hot spots like CPU, GPU, MOSFETS, northbridge, etc?
I've thought about throwing a fan on the back of my GF4 to spot cool the GPU from underneath, but I wonder if it will even have any impact. I don't have my DigiDoc5 back in yet, but I might try this out and if it helps at all consider some other spots.
Just wondering if this is a dumb idea I guess Is much heat ever able to radiate through a PCB anyway?
edit: Okay, the underside of this GPU has always gotten really hot, so I guess it's fairly obvious a good deal of heat is making it through.