Got my HIS bracket set in the mail today. Guess what? Didn't fit. Had to take a chainsaw file to the HDMI port opening since it was about ~3mm off center. Luckily the DVI holes lined up so after a bit of filing I finally got my card more or less securely mounted.
Its kinda a good thing that I had to wait for the bracket... when I took out my graphics card, the thing was hot... like 60C hot and that was idle. Turns out the case has really crappy airflow... much worse than I thought. Its not to bad when there is no graphics card installed, but when you put one in everything runs hot. Did a 15 minute run of Prime95 and my CPU temps got up to 68C... GPU temps were in the 70's with nearly no load.
Think tomorrow I'm going to be putting a 120mm Scythe fan on the side and a small 40-60mm fan on top to suck the hot air away from my graphics card VRMs.
Its kinda a good thing that I had to wait for the bracket... when I took out my graphics card, the thing was hot... like 60C hot and that was idle. Turns out the case has really crappy airflow... much worse than I thought. Its not to bad when there is no graphics card installed, but when you put one in everything runs hot. Did a 15 minute run of Prime95 and my CPU temps got up to 68C... GPU temps were in the 70's with nearly no load.
Think tomorrow I'm going to be putting a 120mm Scythe fan on the side and a small 40-60mm fan on top to suck the hot air away from my graphics card VRMs.
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