Shuttle XPC & 6600GT Cooling Issue

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leachy86

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Hey guys.

I got myself a Shuttle today to go alongside my main machine to download overnight, let friends LAN and other bits of crap you can do with them. I chose a 6600GT. It's loud as hell, if i stop the fan with my finger I can barely hear the rest of the system.

I've been looking at silent/quiet solutions, but they all take up 2 PCI slots. The shuttle's AGP slot is at the far right of the system, meaning the fan only has about 3-5mm gap before the side of the case when the lid is on, so dual slot cooling solutions are not feasible.

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What can I do?
 
You could cut a hole in the side of the case to let a thick card cooler stick through, or mount a silent case fan on the outside to cool a passive heatsink on the card.
 
or hook the stock one to a fan controller and slow it down when not gaming, at 7v it should be more silent and for idle i think it's enough cooling.
 
Do a search for username Jewball

He has a friggin fantastic mod on his shuttle. The thread is almost a year old now, so I'm not sure about the pictures. Basically, cut hole in side, add NV silencer and voila. Cool, quiet, and nice to look at as well.

Tell ya what, here's the linky.

He used a 6800gt but the concept is the same.
 
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