[mythtv-users] Fans, or cooling video cards

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:40:25 Simon Hobson wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
> >I have 3 video cards in my myth box.  It gets a bit hot.  I'm seeing
> >strange corruption, which I'm guessing is heat related.  At least it's
> >appeared recently and the cards run 65 - 74 deg. C in normal use.
> >
> >The video cards are all half-height, and have passive heat sinks.  With
> >every slot in the server occupied, there's not much air circulation
> >around those cards.
> >
> >I'm trying to rig some sort of fan that would sit over the top of the
> >cards and blow air directly down on to them.
>
> Caveat, I've never used any of this sort of stuff.
>
> Logically, if you are struggling for space and getting airflow, then
> it might be worth looking at water cooling. I wouldn't be surprised
> if someone does some slimline heat exchangers that would allow you to
> get one on each video card.

Water cooling adds complexity and potential problems that are best avoided if 
at all possible.

Air cooling is to be preferred, excpet perhaps by gamers to whom complexity is 
a good thing.

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