nixus
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Re:BIOS flash kills fan... - 2005/05/11 21:54
I think it's the fan. I'll be able to tell when I get my Silencer 5 Rev. 2 in a couple of days. I don't really have any fans I can hook up to the x850 due to the size of the fan header. I can keep the card fairly cool with fans about it in the case and one mounted on directly on the card's original heatsink, but I've had to reduce the speed because the load temps cause either artifacts of lockups.
I was going to implement a custom fan setup with some left over high quality copper cpu heatsinks but there isn't enough room between the x850 and the next occupied pci slot even though the adajcent pci slot free. Even with the Silencer (which was on a 6800 before this card) it barely fit and rested against my Audigy sound card - so much so that the fan would not spin until I put in a thin plastic spacer to allow enough room to allow the fan to rotate.
Why don't they put the gpu on the other side of the card? Isn't that side usually more free from surrounding items which would allow "bigger" cooling soluntions?
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ASUS 9800GTX+ (DK) PCIe 512MB - Rev 01
