Ok guys i need everyone and absolutely everyones opinions about custom cooling...

Ok guys i need everyone and absolutely everyones opinions about custom cooling...

Alright i was just crusing some web pages for spare parts and came up with a wacky idea... i currently have a 9700 pro ati card and i wanna overclock it but heat is an issue.. so i was thinking of buying a hard drive cooler like this one...



and what i was gonna do was hot glue it to one of my steel pci covers that comes off the case when u want to add a pci component... by doing so it will pretty much mount the hdd cooler anywhere i like within the pci slot vecinitys... i was thinking of mounting it right over the 9700 pro to give it better cooling... ( yes yes i know it wont be alot more but some is better that none) I was also thinking of maybe instead making a platfor and mounting a big 80 mm fan instead of those 2 small hdd ones.

Next i was thinking of running to a local ace hardware and gettin some pvc piping that doesnt conduct alot of heat and gettin a u join shape.. and having one end curve right on top of my dynatron cpu fan and heatsink and on the other end have one of my rear venting 80 mm fans vent inwords rushing cold air down the pvc to the cpu fan.... for an extreme also thinking of a huge 162 mm fan

last but not least i wanna take an old old power supply from this crappy 486 i have in my closet and make and external box to house it.... right now mostly all of my power connectors are taking up but i wanna add more fans and some cold cathode lights.... so i was thinking using the spare powersupply in a box and connect all my components to that and then connect it to my base towers power switch in turn acting like 2 power supplies one powering my main cpu and the other powering all my lights and spare fans...

sorry i know its super long but there is no method to my madness...

will it work and i will take any and all comments just go easy on me

always looking to do more... i GET VERY BORED AT HOME....

there all pretty good ideas

i take it that you are not worried about noise

why dont you try them out and post the results

good luck slater

cooling

Side panel fan would be better... 80mm, 92mm, or 120mm- blowing right at the card. It would use cooler air than is in the case and could cool both sides of the card.

ya the 9700 pro gets real hot, on both sides. side cooling would benefit it.

i currently got a side fan on my case now... antec tower came with one already....

my current setup is 2 intake fans on front, 2 exhaust fans on rear, and one side fan, and power supply fan.

noise is of no concern lol i already cant get to sleep with my current setup if the comp is running so that idea goes out the window

ill try these things and keep you guys posted on the results.

does the side case fan blow directly onto the vid card from the side? that was what we were referencing...

great idea. just wish I could think up that stuff. I don't have that new of a case or anything but last time I checkeed the agp slot was the way top and there were no slots above it.

One word... Caravel.

It tempts you all. You sit at home fondling yourselves thinking of it. Admit it. Caravel.

You love it. The air. Oh so much air.
Caravel.

http://www.comairrotron.com/ACFans/CaravelAC.htm

Yes. Caravel.

Before you go nuts with a caravel, you could consider a blower, which put out a lot of air without being too loud.

zalman makes a bracket that mounts on the frist three slots (agp and two pci slots) and you can mouht several fans on it. they also make a heat pipe cooler for your video card it looks and works really good.

check out www. ocsystem.com they modify radeon 9700 pros with the zalmon heatpipe cooler and enhanced bios they are great.

this is OC.com forums therefore TRY IT and tell us the results! Trial and error is the best way to get the job done.

yep gonna order the stuff and ill post the outcomes for you guys

im just taking opinions cause id like to hear your guys thoughts