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Cooling options? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by aPpYe_@alien.top to c/pcmods@hardware.watch

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Hello, I have the card in the picture below. I believe the brand is leadtek. The card works fine and I have no problems with it. Recently I finally upgraded from a 1080p to a 4k display and when I run many games at this resolution, the cooler fan is extremely loud. What are my options for cooling this thing a bit more quietly? I am not after extreme silence, some moderate fan noise is okay by me, I just don't enjoy games while the vacuum cleaner is running, essentially.

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[–] aPpYe_@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks all for the thoughts. Air flow was not the problem. The computer does not look all that nice, but there is a decent fan in the front behind that plastic bracket at the lower right of the picture. I did remove a couple of rather minor dust cakes inside the card, but there really was not much to speak of. I don't think it was restricting air.

I did reapply what little thermal grease I had on hand though. I only had enough for a super thin layer all around. I reused the the thermal pads. Either the old grease dried out (probably) or just the act of disassembling and reassembling the card allowed for better thermal contact. I am going to disassemble and do it again the right way once I get a new tube of paste and some padding.

It is running much quieter now.