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bonemage87
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« on: June 07, 2004, 04:52:10 PM » |
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Basically, the 200 series by biostar was poorly designed for adding in a graphics card. If you want to have a good graphics card in the agp slot and a card in the pci slot, the graphics card will get very hot. The fan on my GPU is about a mm from touching my sound card. My GPU temps were 46 C idle and 58 C under heavy gaming load. I decided to modify my sound card so air could flow into the GPU fan more freely. Making sure to not to drill on any leads (flat metal ribbon in the card to connect components) or components, I sucessfully modded my sound card, and it still works perfectly. New temps: 40c idle, under 50c load.   Sound Card: Chaintech AV-512 6 channel Graphics card: Geforce fx 5700 leadtek a360td Hope this will help someone, be carefull when performing mods like this on expensive equipment Marcus |
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bonemage87
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« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 04:52:10 PM » |
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"Graphics card suffocation" fixed
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sabrex
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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2004, 09:26:01 PM » |
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Heya,
I'd love to see how you perforated your sound card but the pics aren't working. I have the same set up with a sound card on the outer, and a geforce4 on the inner. The gpu gest up to 62c on just the heatsink, the core is prolly lots hotter.
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bonemage87
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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2004, 10:30:01 PM » |
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Dang, the pix were working earlier  I'll try to get them back up |
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bonemage87
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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2004, 10:53:19 PM » |
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ok, using sudhian's image thing it asks for the url, in which i put the path name of the image from my hard drive. Do I need to host the image online to get it to work in this forum? ill keep trying
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sabrex
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« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2004, 12:45:40 PM » |
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Looks from the picture like you could cut off the whole section where you drilled the holes into. I took a look at my Hercules Fortissimo 7.1 and I don't think I would be able to do the same thing, there is circuitry all over the place. Looks like my gpu is gonna have to keep on melting.
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DrAtomic
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« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2004, 05:38:23 PM » |
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Interesting fix, but I’ve got a D-Link wireless card in that slot. No room for holes so I’m looking for another solution. I’m running an ATI 9800 Pro, and it does get quite hot.
I just installed my old GeForce4 card into the Shuttle SN41G2, and they have the PCI and AGP slots switched, so the AGP is on the outside next to the case’s vent holes. Brilliant! I wish that was one feature Biostar would have copied from Shuttle! Well, that and the higher wattage power supply.
IDEQ 200N w/AMD 2800+
Twin Geil 512mb (1GB total) DDR3200 (2,3,3,6)
Maxtor 120GB SATA HD, Lite-on Combo drive
ATI 9800 Pro, D-Link wireless
Logitech Z640 5.1 Speakers
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bonemage87
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« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2004, 06:02:03 PM » |
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Sabrex, Your right, I could have cut off that whole section, but i opted to keep it because i need the silkscreened info on the top of that section, the jumper settings. So, to make things easier (and safer for the card), I just drilled holes where i wanted to. DrAtomic, Yes, I had hoped they would have fixed that issue on the 300 series (due to come out, search the forum here), but the config is the same in this respect with the 200 series pc's.  Marcus |
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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2004, 07:04:01 AM » |
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i replaced the heatsink/fan on my fx5200 with a fanless heatsink (and silver thermal compound) from a mx440 card, i also have a wireless card in the pci slot that i cant drill, but i have put a quiet 80mm fan in the side panel right at the end of my pci card so it sucks air from betoween the 2 card, now my SILENT video card's heatsink is barely warm to the touch after 20-30min of gaming.
and its still quiet.
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« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2004, 07:06:47 AM » |
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