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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: HAF x not keeping 3x6990's cool
by
TenthReality
on 20/07/2011, 14:22:06 UTC
Get a toothpick, put a small piece of mylar on it like a little streamer.  Go around your case using it to look for any airflow voids, watch for it to flap around in the wind (the toothpick isn't conductive so you can poke it into unused slots) .  I had a situation on one case where how the HDD cage + cabling + cards were arrayed i had a HUGE airflow void across one of the cards that was causing major thermal issues.  Be sure to close the case up each time and watch it, dynamics of airflow with the side panel on/off are very different.

Ideally you want good flow over both the front and back of all cards. If your airflow seems fine everywhere, look at the "flow" of the air in terms of:  hot air vented from the PSU is then being sucked into the video card for example, do you have anything dumping its heat directly on to something else?