Hath returned! And who said engineering a solution was supposed to be elegant?

Hah, nice, that's quite the "solution".

oh god >.<

I hear you bro xD

That's what I thought

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like a toilet seat. What is it?

Its a fan

A fan that looks like it was never intended for PC use.

I'm guessing the air flow in that PC is poor with that fan?

His graphics card keeps overheating, and that's his new cooling method. It's actually quite common for people to do such a thing.

The air "flow" will be poor, but it will push a lot more cool air onto the hot components.

100% fan on this comp lol. No overheating issues ;D

I recently put my fan speed to automatic and my PC became pretty much silent.

HD noise is what dominates my PC.

When my GPU and CPU fans spin up, they become audible, but then again, that's usually when I'm playing games with headphones.

I can always hear my graphics card, that is all. But I know it's not overheating so it's worth it tbh.

Most of the air flow is correct, just the tiny POS fan on the gcard does fall at removing heat. If its at 0% or at 100% theres like 1 degree difference.
So if I can't get the hot air away, blast the little f*cker with cold air!

I thought you had the same graphics card as me Si. Changes my temp by around 20 degrees from normal to 100%....

Si's case is quite old, the airflow to and from the GPU are is probably pretty poor, which will mean no matter what the GPU does, it will still bake.

That's like saying watercooling wont do anything cos its still X chip inside.

not really, I'm saying the fan on the card itself makes a big difference for me, I would assume this has nothing to do if we have different cooling systems, etc.

Update: New (wrong) graphics card arrived. Just waiting for novatech to tell me if I can open the box then we'll see who melts.

Me most likely

And finally... I have a graphics card. A nice new HD4850 with 1GB of GRAM.
Now, for el pictures:







Temp testing:
42degrees idle
61degrees max full load

Lets hope we stay that way...

That's a beast of a cooler!