MacGuyver Cooling 4870HD

[WarOne]

Woke up this morning to find my video card idling at 70+ degs, that is really bad taking into account that is is 3 in the morning and it cold as hell.  How I was able to play any games before was that I had d'Beast(my big ass 120mm fan) which used to sit directly on top of my video card on the back of the pcb which used to keep the card cool from the other side along with my house fan pointing directly into the case(before you ask "why dont you just buy a new cooler" I am broke dammit).  I ended up destroying d'Beast when it was hit by a stray bullet from a dangling molex connector(that is what I get for fixing somebody mc computer).  Tried to use a Vantec stealth 120mm fan I had sitting in some box but that didnt work out as de mc thing does spin slow probably to decrease noise, hence stealth.

Cue MacGuyver music, Look left twist ties from some Kiss bread... look right a 80mm fan, mc Voltron combine and voila 4870 + kiss bread twist tie+ 80mm fan = I can play mc game.  The only changes I made to the actual card was to rip off the plastic shield and due to me putting the 80mm fan too close I killed the fan that was on the card, I dont mind tho since was supposed to buy an actual cooler sometime in the future and it wasnt doing anything anyway.

[Preston786]

Get one of these Vantec Spectrum PCI Fan Card

It did wonders for my old gigabyte 7600 GS that was passively cooled with only heatsink was idling @ 79

and when I put the vantec in it cut the temp by about 20 degrees!

this was in a old dell dimension 4600 I had a while back.


PS. actually I might still have my old one somewhere when I get home I'll check and see you can have it if you want just lemme kno

[Spazosaurus]

I love this. Find a way for it to work, no matter how ghetto it is, once it work and u eh have to spend any money.

But it curious how u only now think abt doin that. I guess u wanted to save urself a little cutass. I fully understand bro.

[WarOne]

I love this. Find a way for it to work, no matter how ghetto it is, once it work and u eh have to spend any money.

But it curious how u only now think abt doin that. I guess u wanted to save urself a little cutass. I fully understand bro.

It is more like blame NotNice for yuh buss ass, yeah that sound about right.  He gave me the idea some weeks back, only doing it now cause d'beast died.  RIP.

[Berzerk]

[WarOne]

The saga continued yesterday with a scary cliffhanger which almost caused out hero to bow out from pc gaming altogether(well until he got a new video card).  

Earlier in the day was running some BC2 with NotNice and was getting some serious heat lag from my card, it looks like the MacGuyverd(it is a word look it up) video card which was cooling better than my previous setup was still not cooling fast enough.  

Thinking on his feet NotNice came up with a "brilliant idea" why dont you turnaround the 120mm fan that is currently on top of the PCB so that instead of blowing down it blows up.  In my mind I knew that "arent there no guard fins for the fan on that side," but still went ahead as the thought of having my card cool and heat lag free was driving me on.  It took a few seconds for the fins to touch the back of the video card causing the video on the monitor to go out, and the fact that this was a dumb idea to come shooting back to the front of my brain.  
Immediately I took off the computer unplugged the video card and was about to put it in inside a box and forget the whole episode happened while thinking of what kinda shit Cpt.Awesome is going to tell me when he hears the story.  For some reason I plugged the card back in restarted the computer and the video card worked, and it looks like the strike to the back of the card from the fins caused the onboard fan to start back working, which is now causing a serious drop in temps, the 120mm fan is toast tho but at least I can play any game I want now without the heat lag.

 YOU GOTTA LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OR YOU GONNA GO MAD.

[Spazosaurus]

I dont understand what u say there. U go explain that to me in mumble later.

[mailman166]

I dont understand what u say there. U go explain that to me in mumble later.

He saying god, karma, the universe gave him a get out of jail pass and fixed his original video card problem... Keeping that shit coollllllllllll