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I bought an 8800GT with "cooling extras", including iandh's ramsinks, and some kind of a jumbo heatsink with fins, but, unfortunately did not include any fans. (yeah). In the picture below, you can see that with the heatsink reaching so close to the neighboring GTX260, that only leaves around 20mm of free space. (MB only has two PCIE slots). I am considering getting a couple of 60mm x 10mm fans, YSTech or Galaxy or some such similarly sized fans with around 17CFM, to ghetto-wire to the fins.
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But that still would leave little room for the fans to bring in air, or would they be OK? Are there any other options, short of replacing the heatsink with a heatsink/fan combination like the Accelero or the Musushi, etc.
I'm actually in the midst of switching my system to water cooling, so it's possible my caseflow isn't what it should be, but my other card stays cool even folding. I won't be pushing this card at all, so I just some way to keep it relatively cool. BTW, when I installed the card before realizing there was not fan attached, it within 3 minutes reached 100, so it can't run as is.
Thanks,

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But that still would leave little room for the fans to bring in air, or would they be OK? Are there any other options, short of replacing the heatsink with a heatsink/fan combination like the Accelero or the Musushi, etc.
I'm actually in the midst of switching my system to water cooling, so it's possible my caseflow isn't what it should be, but my other card stays cool even folding. I won't be pushing this card at all, so I just some way to keep it relatively cool. BTW, when I installed the card before realizing there was not fan attached, it within 3 minutes reached 100, so it can't run as is.
Thanks,