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Renegade, can you shoot some pics of your machine, zip them up and attach them here?

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I can probably do that, but it may take me a while (find the digital camera, recharge its batterys, take pictures, download, resize, upload, etc http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif). Should get it done sometime today.

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Re: OT: Graphics Card Overheating
 

The space to the left of your CPU fan in the first picture looks like a nice place to add another fan.

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If that doesn't work, you can always leave the computer case off. It should be fine, if you clean it regually with compressed air, and put the case back on when you'll be gone for a long period of time.

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They make 'slot fans' that use an open card slot and blow OUT from within the case. Putting one of those on the slot right below your card would help. The only problem is they are usually cheap 'sleeve' bearing devices that will quickly start to rattle and become very annoying.

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Man dust can kill just as fast as heat. I noticed that with the onset of summer many people have more problems with their computers than they otherwise normally do at any other time of year.

Heat is a killer. I noticed today that my on board Lan keeps failing. I have to uninstall it from the control panel then reboot every few days just to be able to connect. It is a real pain. I am buying a new system, once I have the cash saved up, and that will be nice. I will ask for extra cooling fans and such to help keep it cooler.

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You're missing a fan on the backside of the PC, I believe.

Looking at the picture, you need a 80-120mm fan, you just need to find the spot on the motherboard to attach it once you get it.

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Don't worry if you don't have a fan connector on the mobo; you can buy fans with 4pin molex connectors to connect directly to the power supply. Or you can always just tape up some wires to convert it. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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My blue box has like six fans. It sounds like a jet engine when I turn it on. It was the system that got to hot and fried its CPU, HD, and MB. When it fried the CPU that was expensive back in the day when it was built. $400.00 for a 1.4 gig AMD. (X 2) The HD was just bad to begin with, damn Western Digitals don't hold up well to heat at all. The MB was a flawed ASUS made with inferior Chinese's chips.

I don't use it much any more as it is so very loud and it was build in 2001 and sports a $500.00 GeForce 3 card. You know the card that they released that was pretty much outdated the moment it was put into a box for sale. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

The sound card went bad, or perhaps its conflicting with the on board sound card, I am not sure, but it doesn't have any sound.

I think having a cool room to run your PC from is better than having extra fans. If the room is hot, then the air being sucked into your PC is also hot. No real cooling going on. What they need to do is sell small PC AC systems.