2 x 4890 added cooling

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Sry about the crap pic.

It drops the furmark temps from 94 to 84 deg.

Got to say, it was prolly more fun making it than it is useful. I took out the card blank at the back of the case (between the cards) and put and exhaust grated one in just incase you are wondering if all I made was a pressure box.

The cards run around 4 deg cooler at idle> My main problem though was the top card got a lot hotter than the bottom, due to heat being radiated from the back of the bottom one (burny hot). It has at least fixed this problem.

I'm going to lift it up abot 20 - 30mm to see if it works any better.

Or maybe mod it more if anyone has any ideas?
 
From the picture, it looks like they're pushing. If theres a gap in the backplates for air to get out, i'd say this is a pretty good job! Got to be noisy though, even if those fans are quiet on their own...

Is this using the standard headsinks on the cards themselves? You may find some better temps by upgrading those, rather than just plastering fans all over the place :)
 
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