mattycarroll
Weaksauce
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- Dec 12, 2008
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Hello.
Recently installed a sapphire vapor x 7970 and it sounded like a hoover, it was awful, so i have installed a prolimatech MK-26 with some Noctua fans and its 100 times quieter and cooler. Anyway, the card really sags so i have used some Tieclips to hold the card up, it doesnt sag as much but am i putting pressure on anywhere else instead?
I tried propping card up from the bottom but it resulted in a increase in temperature so i presume the pressure on the fan was putting extra pressure on the heatsink?
Anyway, first two photos are before the tieclip ( you can see the severe sag) and the last two are after my mod. Thanks for advice. The tie clip mod doesnt affect temperatures or Noise, i did it to take pressure of the gfx card board and PCI-E slot on the motherboard but someone told me it could be dangerous? Thanks for any advice:-
Recently installed a sapphire vapor x 7970 and it sounded like a hoover, it was awful, so i have installed a prolimatech MK-26 with some Noctua fans and its 100 times quieter and cooler. Anyway, the card really sags so i have used some Tieclips to hold the card up, it doesnt sag as much but am i putting pressure on anywhere else instead?
I tried propping card up from the bottom but it resulted in a increase in temperature so i presume the pressure on the fan was putting extra pressure on the heatsink?
Anyway, first two photos are before the tieclip ( you can see the severe sag) and the last two are after my mod. Thanks for advice. The tie clip mod doesnt affect temperatures or Noise, i did it to take pressure of the gfx card board and PCI-E slot on the motherboard but someone told me it could be dangerous? Thanks for any advice:-