vga cooler question

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xnikx

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i have a 680i mobo and a 8800GTS and a x-fi soundcard.

so yah i can move the sound card to the bottom pci slot.

i wanted to get the vga cooler in a store and i can only find these dual slot vga cooler.
http://www.compusa.com/products/pro...ode=332236&Pn=VCool_Expansion_Slot_VGA_Cooler
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...ategoryId=pcmcat107700050052&id=1124432441259
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...ategoryId=pcmcat107700050052&id=1124432441317
now my freind sayd your not sapost to cover the pci x16 slots and it looks like no matter what ill be covering one.

am i allowed to cover pci x16 slots or am i going to have to get a single slot cooler?
and how much should these lower my temps, im using the stock cooler on my 8800GTS.
 
Of course you can cover an unused PCIe or PCI slot. Some friend :rolleyes:

That being said, if you've already got good airflow in your case, don't expect your temps to go down that much.
 
5C?
just to clearify, he kind of freaked me out

you are saying im allowed to cover the PCI Express x16 slots
 
why wouldn't you be able to cover them? hell, you could desolder and take them out if you wanted. ask your friend the basis of his statement and report back, i think we'd all like to hear this one.
 
havent asked him but i think he thinks u have to plug them into the mobo
 
xnikx said:
havent asked him but i think he thinks u have to plug them into the mobo
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I'm not really sure where he's coming from, but unused expansion slots don't get plugged into anything, and it wouldn't matter if you made your own VGA cooler out of an old CPU HSF and it covered two extra PCI slots...it'd still work.

Either we're grossly misunderstanding where your friend is coming from, or his hardware knowledge isn't quite what he makes it out to be.
 
above poster, he meant that its bad for the pci x16 slots not the vga cooler. ill talk to him and see what he meant.
 
you wouldn't want that plastic connector to get damaged by all that high speed air coming from the cooler.
 
what?
i was planning on buying this VGA cooler 2marrow so is it bad for anything or not?
 
[Either we're grossly misunderstanding where your friend is coming from, or his hardware knowledge isn't quite what he makes it out to be./QUOTE]

LOL you are a kind soul.
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Back on topic, what your friend is probally trying to say is that if you go with the cooler you will use the space (cover up ) above the other pci 16x slot and that will prevent you from plugging a 2nd video card in.

This would only be a concern if you indended to run 2 video cards in xfire (ati) or SLI (nvidea).

Because with the big cooler you would have covered up the slot where the 2nd video card needed to go.

Hope that made sense. So, no second video card in the future, dont worry about it, get the cooler.
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yah i was talkin to him, hes was makin much sense but im pretty sure he thinks you have to plug it into one of the pci slots.

how much degrees will this lower my temps by? atleast 5c?
 
xnikx said:
yah i was talkin to him, hes was makin much sense but im pretty sure he thinks you have to plug it into one of the pci slots.

how much degrees will this lower my temps by? atleast 5c?
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Plug what into one of the PCI slots? The cooler?

The only way that the cooler has anything to do with one of the PCI slots is that the backplate of the card physically screws into two expansion slots in the back of your case, but it has nothing to do with the physical slot on the motherboard.

LOL you are a kind soul.
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Hehe...I try. ;)
 
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