PC Modding and GFX Cards

[Flight]

Detailed what I've been up to today and the last couple of weeks on OcUK :

 

Flights new shiny toys

 

 

 

As an aside the latest NVidia card series (460/470/480) have awful noise and heat problems. So I stripped my 470 down and fitted a customer Zalman cooler to it. It blows the air into the case instead of out the back, though. SO I apired it up with a Silverstone FT02B-W case.

 

This is one a small number of new cases that counter rotates the motherboard 90 degrees so that the back plate faces out the top of the PC instead of the back.

 

 

The cooling performance is astonishing, and as any geek will tell you temp plays a large part in defining whetheryou can overclock 500 quid worth of kit in 5 minutes so that it performs better than the four times more expensive top of the range set up that Mr non-Geek has forked out for because he wants the best.

 

 

The most interesting part of the whole thing for me was the FT02 case. Heat has been a restriction to computing for two decades, but we've constandly stood by the case design that has our components (GFX cards etc) vertical across the case. Now, with the Silverstone, everything is vertical. And three huge powerful fans alonside the whole bottom of the case such air in and direct it out the top of the case.

 

In PC terms it's like when man decided rounding off the corners of square wheels might be an idea on a flat surface.

 

 

 

Not the best picture, but it gives you an idea about the airflow, sucked in from the bottom and air forced vertically out of the top of the case :

 

 

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Edited October 22, 2010 by Flight