About a year ago I talked about how my friend had a PC heat sink that he wasn't using so we put it into my tower and it fit perfectly and all that jazz. Thing is, my rig was still getting pretty hot after a feel weeks, and I was having some random GPU errors.
I've opened it up a dozen times, dusted it out with the force of a thousand cleaning ladies, plopped on thermal paste a handful of times, reinstalled my drivers more often than NASCAR, and that one doesn't even make sense. Nothing seemed to be helping.
Then last night I was poking around and noticed something.
Hey
This clip-on fan we put on the cooling unit that's really easy to move around
Is blowing all of the hot air right onto the fucking graphics card.
It took me a year to realize
FAN SHOULD MAKE HOT AIR GO OUT.
So I literally just clipped the fan off and put it on the other side so it blows out of the tower.
Computers, man. How do they work.
I've opened it up a dozen times, dusted it out with the force of a thousand cleaning ladies, plopped on thermal paste a handful of times, reinstalled my drivers more often than NASCAR, and that one doesn't even make sense. Nothing seemed to be helping.
Then last night I was poking around and noticed something.
Hey
This clip-on fan we put on the cooling unit that's really easy to move around
Is blowing all of the hot air right onto the fucking graphics card.
It took me a year to realize
FAN SHOULD MAKE HOT AIR GO OUT.
So I literally just clipped the fan off and put it on the other side so it blows out of the tower.
Computers, man. How do they work.