What's the best 120mm CFM fan I can get for about $10 apiece?
I'm limping my 7-year-old rig along until I can save up enough to make my new build, so I don't want to spend a ton on this.
When I first installed Afterburner, it turned out that my dual SLI nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX cards were each running at 110C to 120C.
Opening the side of the case and running it with a fan pointed at it dropped that to about 80C, but over time it slowly crept back up to 95-100C.
Pulled the whole system apart, dusted everything, re-applied thermal paste, the whole shebang only dropped it back to 75-85C (still with the case open and external fans--closing the case made the temp shoot up).
Earlier tonight, I pulled out the SLI bridge and one of the cards, and now it's idling at about 62C with the case closed.
I'm hoping with some stronger fans for movement, I can drop the idle temp into the mid-40's.
I'm limping my 7-year-old rig along until I can save up enough to make my new build, so I don't want to spend a ton on this.
When I first installed Afterburner, it turned out that my dual SLI nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX cards were each running at 110C to 120C.
Opening the side of the case and running it with a fan pointed at it dropped that to about 80C, but over time it slowly crept back up to 95-100C.
Pulled the whole system apart, dusted everything, re-applied thermal paste, the whole shebang only dropped it back to 75-85C (still with the case open and external fans--closing the case made the temp shoot up).
Earlier tonight, I pulled out the SLI bridge and one of the cards, and now it's idling at about 62C with the case closed.
I'm hoping with some stronger fans for movement, I can drop the idle temp into the mid-40's.
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