Cool Your System 5 Degrees Celsius!!!

This worked great for me. It cooled my system 5 degrees Celcius.
Basically, what I did was put a fan attached to an expansion slot cover blowing air onto the HSF.

This is the article that influenced my mod:HERE

I moddified this to fit my system and make it blow air over the HSF by bending the PCI slot cover so it diagonal from the HSF.

Here is a pic:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-11/517212/psu003.jpg

This little mod dropped my temps about 5 degrees Celsius and for 10 bucks, it was a great thing to do.

I hope you guys will like this one and use it if you have high temps.

Enjoy!!!

Do you people like it?

looks like it did the job for you. another popular alternative is to mount a fan in the side of the case right in front of the hsf that delivers cooler ambient air right over the hsf. another way to do that is to duct it right to the hsf so it doesnt get disturbed or disturb the air currents in the case. if you try that, you should see even better gains. good job using your head here.

mod on.

I've already got a fan mounted on the side panel. It worked quite well. Initially, it lowered my temps around 5 degrees as well.

Thanks for the input.

you may wanna consider cleaning up your cables, too....just my $0.2...

I've been using a similar setup for years. I have the "sideways" fan placed halfway across my video card as well to keep it cool. By tilting it upwards a bit, it does help with the airflow in the case.

i realy like what u have done w/ ur now mod! What i want to know is how hot were u running and what ur temps are now?
great job for under $10!

-Xander

My previous temps were as follows:

Case: 37 degrees Celcius

CPU: 52 degrees Celcius

My new temps are:

Case: 33 degrees Celcius

CPU: 48 degrees Celcius

Thanks for the input guys.