Need Cooling device for a Sound Blaster X-FI Titanium Fatality

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[H]ard|Gawd
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I need to get a Sound Blaster X-FI Titanium Fatality pci-e cooling device of some kind but i cant find any heat sink or fan that will fit it.


anybody know anything?

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Why? Soundcards do not run that hot. The plate on modern soundcards is a shield, not a cooler. Inside of a computer is electrically noisy place and the shield attempts to keep it out from the sound signal after it has been turned to analog and can pick up background noise. If you use external DAC which takes the digital signal out of the computer before conversion even the shield becomes unnecessary.
 
If that card is running hot then one of these is true.

1. You don't have near enough airflow through your case
2. The card is faulty - I have seen a couple different old SB Live! cards that ran really, really hot and then eventually died.
 
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