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Wildcard · 20-03-2008, 10:13 PM

Hi,

I have been getting the parts together for a new computer and I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good method for cooling the video cards. I am going to use liquid cooling on the cpu and have a thermaltake Kandalf case. I have 3 120mm fans on the front door for the radiator, and have bought a 120mm fan for the back of the case, and then a 90 mm for higher up in the back and also one for the top exhaust. I am planning to run 2 8800gtx (XFX overclocked editions) cards in SLI mode. I am concerned about the cards because this case does not have a place for a fan on the side to blow over the cards. Ideally I would like to buy 2 waterblocks for them, but I just dropped my whole tax return on everything else and cant afford 260 dollars atm for 2 danger den blocks. Can anyone suggest anything else I can do to keep these cards cool or do you think they will be ok? I have looked at some of the PCI fans and while I this would work for the top card, I am not sure if it would cool the lower one.

Thanks!

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Wildcard Big Geek Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 107 Times Helpful: 15 My Mood: Sad Status: Offline My Computer	Enough cooling for SLI? Hi, I have been getting the parts together for a new computer and I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good method for cooling the video cards. I am going to use liquid cooling on the cpu and have a thermaltake Kandalf case. I have 3 120mm fans on the front door for the radiator, and have bought a 120mm fan for the back of the case, and then a 90 mm for higher up in the back and also one for the top exhaust. I am planning to run 2 8800gtx (XFX overclocked editions) cards in SLI mode. I am concerned about the cards because this case does not have a place for a fan on the side to blow over the cards. Ideally I would like to buy 2 waterblocks for them, but I just dropped my whole tax return on everything else and cant afford 260 dollars atm for 2 danger den blocks. Can anyone suggest anything else I can do to keep these cards cool or do you think they will be ok? I have looked at some of the PCI fans and while I this would work for the top card, I am not sure if it would cool the lower one. Thanks!