EntropikOne

I've notice that this motherboard doesnt leave a lot of room towards the bottom, i have two 9800 GT's running SLI (in both blue pci slots) but the bottom one is really close to the bottom of the case and i dont think there is really any airflow because idling right now (with fans at 100%) the one on top is 59C but the bottom one is 68C, temps get pretty high when playing games and i really cant OC them....does anyone have any cooling suggestions that aren't too expensive and would fit inside this case? i attached a picture just so you can maybe see what i mean, there's not much space so im not sure if i should bother buying a new fan, maybe just a new heatsink for it?

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motoray

Me and my brother use this mobo but my case didnt have this issue. What we did with his was use a hole saw and just cut a hole right where the bottom cards fan is. Then put a nice intake fan blowing into the cards. That should keep er cool.

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EntropikOne

well the case i have has 2 huge intakes on the panel so i guess that basically is what you rigged up =[ does anyone know of any cheap cooling solution i could use? only have one free pcie port (one is holding my NIC) i havnt seen any that i could use for SLI cards, seems most would just be taking heat off of one card and blowing it onto the other.

EntropikOne

well i removed the extra usb/firewire ports i had plugged into the bottom of the MB (right under the bottom gpu) and now with the fans at 100% on the gpu the temperature no longer reaches +80C on load =] though now i'm out 2 extra usb ports =\