Ghetto GPU Cooling

[Roadkill]

My GPU was running a little hot (70C) so I decided to try an alternative method to cool it down a little and got it down to 55C just by blu-tacking a fan to the underside of the GPU chip. Works awesome. (The temperatures were tested during benchmarking tests.) Might be a good tip for you overclockers.

GPU manufacturers should of thought of this a long time ago. :conf:

[Fuzzy]

 

[Todor]

Heard of backplates? Get a chunky piece of metal, will work better than the fan and don't use blu tac but some TIM.

[DellStorm]

Hi TrojanTM,

Love The Creativity!

Just be careful if you have to move your computer from one room to another,.
Brilliant Post!

Happy Gaming,

Regards,

DellStorm

[Bilbo]

Todor, you're suggesting him to place a big chunk piece of metal on the back side of the card?
Am I wrong or have metals turned into insulators instead of conductors?

[Roadkill]

The backplates are usually just a mount for the heatsink/fan and are insulated so they won't really cool the back of the card.

[Lamar Diasso]

I like SpeedFan because I use it to fool people. As I turn up the speed(Speed 1: 55% when a good temperature) the fan makes a lot of noice: "Oh my god it's going to explode!"

[Roadkill]

I like SpeedFan because I use it to fool people. As I turn up the speed(Speed 1: 55% when a good temperature) the fan makes a lot of noice: "Oh my god it's going to explode!"

Lol for some reason speedfan doesn't work for me but I like to use it to read temperatures.

[Todor]

Todor, you're suggesting him to place a big chunk piece of metal on the back side of the card?
Am I wrong or have metals turned into insulators instead of conductors?

Heard of non-conductive(electricity) thermal compounds? And, yes, I am 

[Bilbo]

Heard of non-conductive(electricity) thermal compounds? And, yes, I am 

I've been studying electronics, computers and communication technologies for almost 2 years now, so yes I do.

[Roadkill]

Anyway I don't have a piece of metal that I can bolt to the back of my GPU. I just had a shitty fan lying around + some blu tac.

[Salmonella]

Maybe cleaning your GPU from all that dust would improve the temperature. What card is it btw?

[Roadkill]

Maybe cleaning your GPU from all that dust would improve the temperature. What card is it btw?

Funny you said that cause I cleaned my PC out a few days ago and its not really made much of a difference. It's a 9800GT I'm selling it soon to make way for my new PC.