Woot. modded! Very similar to iakovl's mod. I jacked a northbridge heat sink off of a dead Dell mobo. Fits the card perfectly. I don't feel very much heat on it anymore :) I haven't found a way to secure a heat sink to the center chip though. Is that some sort of glue that holds it? I would post a p...

I really like the idea of adding that larger heat sink especially considering I have something that will probably work.

Time for some modding

I recently got a Dell Perc 5/i for my new file server and I'm very pleased with its performance but not with how hot it gets. There is a tiny heat sink on it that get rather hot. I put a expansion slot fan in the slot right below it but it has three problems: 1. It is too short. The fan unit is abou...

I built something similar recently --in fact just finished the bulk of the work yesterday and now I'm test running it monitoring temps of various components to see where I could possibly modify for quieter operation. Antec NSK3480 E8400 (no OC) with fanless Ninja rev B Intel DG31PR 8800GT (stock --L...

Windows 7 is sounding like it will be one of Microsoft's better products. "Faster and more stable" was something unheard of for Vista during its beta stage.

I am planning on upgrading my current PC to run quieter and would appreciate some advice on which components I should reuse and what I should replace. My PC is so unbearably loud at the moment that my main goal is to keep costs low and just cut down on the bulk of the noise. Nit picking can come lat...