Nessmaster | 14th April 2006 21:07 | 7800GT + Arctic Cooling = Too big? I have a problem/question. Thing is, when I bought my mobo I also bought a northbridge heatsink/fan (which works great BTW). Well, my mobo (the Abit Fatal1ty AN8-SLI) has the nforce 4 chipset located right behing one of the PCI-x16 slots. Thus, installing the heatsink/fan I soon found out that the 7800GT would not fit in that PCI-x16 slot. So, I poped it into the other one. This however created another dilema, my sound card.
My Sound card is located right next to my graphics card. This was always a concern (heating) for me, but it didnt seem to butcher airflow too much running my 7800GT at stock speeds. But now, ever since I've decided to start some overclocking on my GPU as well, I soon relised that while the temperatures with the stock heatsink/fan are somewhat "OKAY", I would rather have it being cooled by the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 Revision 3 cooler.
This is where my concern comes into play. As you can see from the picture below:
The space between the 7800GT and the sound card is about 3cm wide and I'm not sure wether or not the Artic Cooling NV Silencer will fit. And even if it does fit, will it be too close to the sound card to kill airflow comming out of the cooler?:( |