Any harm?

glockjs · Nov 20, 2007

Any harm in taking the ol dremel out and taking a few fins off the side of the HS? The damn thing is to big to fit in the right direction because of the northbridge HS. I would think it would be more advantages to have the airflow pointed in the right direction with a few fins missing vs wrong direction fully intact. Right now the airflow is pointed up at my psu which is blowing warm air down at it lol..pic:

HaTE · Nov 20, 2007

i don't see any harm in cutting a few fins off as long as you don't cut in to the heatpipes.

also the psu dosen't blow air in to the case, it pulls air off the cpu and blows it out the back of the case.

Automata · Nov 20, 2007

Cutting the heatsink won't do anything. You want heatsink turned so that the fan is over the ram...otherwise it will be backwards.

glockjs · Nov 20, 2007

alright cool. guess ill give it a try

Moto7451 · Nov 20, 2007

looks like an Abit IP-95E mobo to me with a freezer7

. I had to do the same thing on that very same setup. I used a pair of dikes (diagonal cutters for all your dirty minded people

) to do it however. A dremel is overkill but should work just fine.

glockjs · Nov 20, 2007

Moto7451 said:
looks like an Abit IP-95E mobo to me with a freezer7 . I had to do the same thing on that very same setup. I used a pair of dikes (diagonal cutters for all your dirty minded people ) to do it however. A dremel is overkill but should work just fine.

you are correct sir

dykes x.O i dont wanna bend the crap outta it though :/

Spawn-Inc · Nov 20, 2007

ya i dropped temps 2 degrees by adding a fan over a fan near the freezer 7 pro.

click the link below to see what i mean by fan on fan, last picture.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=535595

i normally have the fan at the exhaust but as the thread says had to use it to cool the volt reg's.

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