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Cheap Air cooler for Radeon 5970

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8/9/12 at 5:50pm
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I'm looking for a decent, cheap air cooler to help cool my radeon 5970's on my test bench

for an add in on or card. it seems these cards get the hottest on the bottom
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8/9/12 at 5:54pm
Perhaps try grab a H50 or two and do a DOUBLE GPU CPU-COOLER styled..... cooler haha
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8/10/12 at 3:11pm
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Perhaps try grab a H50 or two and do a DOUBLE GPU CPU-COOLER styled..... cooler haha

just sticking to air cooled at this moment, concerned about power usage too
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8/17/12 at 9:08am
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Originally Posted by nottinmatterz View Post

concerned about power usage too
then why do you have a dual GPU card?

And seriously, there's nothing cheap about cooling dual GPU cards - you're either going to spend some money or a good chunk of your time on it.
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