Newegg has the Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 VGA Cooler for $23 + $0 shipping = $23 shipped. Features noiseless cooling, dual heat pipes, Heat Sink: 140 x 188 x 32 mm, Low Weight.
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Frobozz - Posted 6:07 am PST 11/3/09 (196 Posts)
I have this bolted to my video card. If you have decent air circulation in your case (and probably if you don't), this works *better* than most stock video card cooling fans, and of course it's silent. Does take up a chunk of space, though.
#2
dave_c - Posted 2:51 am PST 11/4/09 (7515 Posts)
The problem with that plan #1, is your GPU isn't the only part that needs cooled, having a fan on the heatsink pulls or pushes air past the power regulation stage which creates a non-trivial amount of heat itself, contributing to mosfet or capacity failure.
Ideally you would have both, a heatpiped 'sink then a large/thick fan either mounted on it, or on the side case panel blowing directly across the card.
Bit expensive though, to buy an aftermarket cooler instead of paying the $10 more a typical GPU-model of card costs to get it wearing a better stock heatsink.
Ideally you would have both, a heatpiped 'sink then a large/thick fan either mounted on it, or on the side case panel blowing directly across the card.
Bit expensive though, to buy an aftermarket cooler instead of paying the $10 more a typical GPU-model of card costs to get it wearing a better stock heatsink.
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