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so I've been having some performance issues with my media PC it's got a

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GeForce GTX 660 Ti um some Core I5 or

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something like that in it and basically what happens is I launch a game and it

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runs great for a little while and then

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the frame rate starts to tank now if you're familiar with thermal throttling you probably know what I'm about to show

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you here but if you're not then we'll go

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ahead and show you what's going on so you can see here GPU temperatures are

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pinned at about 101° and then if we go ahead and scroll

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down you can see our fan speed is pinned

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at 80% which is the maximum that it'll do and then finally yes this my friends

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this is the core clock it should be at around 1 GHz plus and instead it's

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hovering between 581 mahz and even

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dipping as low as 191 so this system is thermal throttling

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and there's something that we need to do about

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it the flash Voyager GTX USB 3 drive

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from Corsair provides SSD like performance and fits comfortably in your

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pocket click now to learn more so this

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is the problem even with the graphics card doing nothing sitting and idling

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it's at about 50° so modern gpus don't

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run much hotter than the ambient temperature which means with this

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cabinet closed it is roasting in there even when the computer's not doing

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anything so I guess one solution would be to just have it open all the time but

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uh that's pretty lame and another solution that I was doing which is

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terrible was just hanging the computer out here but you can see I actually

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damaged the lip here quite a bit doing that so obviously we need something

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better so while I could have concluded that the solution is to put a less

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powerful computer in there yeah no we're

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going to add cooling to the cabinet instead so I've gathered a drill

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soldering iron wire stripper saw Dremel tool measuring tape cooling fans fan

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grills fan power splitter inline resistors external power supply for the

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fans or perhaps some sacrificial stuff to do like a DIY something or other a

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hole saw some miscellaneous nuts and bolts clear and electrical tape a paper

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template or for for cutting 120 mm fan

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holes and then a vacuum for cleaning up it's going to be a fun day okay so with

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the system out i' had actually kind of forgotten the configuration of this case

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I thought there was a a vent on the bottom but there isn't other than this

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intake right here so that changes how I had planned to put the fans in but what

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I want to do is I want to get the exhaust from the case so that's the top

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120 mm fan here and then the power supply fan at the back I want to get

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that out of the cabinet and then I want to bring fresh air to the intake which

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for this case the only real intake is

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here on the bottom so what I may end up doing is changing the graphics card from

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a an internal recirculating cooler

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design to like an open cooler design to one that has a rear exhaust on it so

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we'll have to figure that out later let's see if this works first so my original plan was to do 1 120 mm intake

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down here and then I was going to do like a side intake over here to account

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for the two exhausts that I'm going to do at the top back here but um my wife

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actually brought up that if I do decide to put a hole in the bottom of the case

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for some passive intake for the uh the fan on the graphics card then if I just

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put these both here covering the entire bottom of the case I always have a computer here in all likelihoods so uh I

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should just put them both here all right so here we are all the templates are taped into place so I will start by

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drilling out the four holes and then

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hole sawing the middles all right moment of truth time although we did have a

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realization this is a lot thicker than the back material so I'm going to need

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some different bolts but

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whatever

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okay let's check and make sure that these are even the right size

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and that's pretty tight I would have to actually screw them through I'd rather

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have it a little looser Okay Okay so we've got all the holes drilled except

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the big ones and I had kind of a scary

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moment here when I realized my drill just

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barely barely fits so we want to get

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this lined up as perfectly as we can my whole saw is not actually 120 mm it's a

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little bit smaller so I guess if I'm off by a little bit it's not a huge deal cuz

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we're not making the best use of the space anyway but here we go well I got

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started and realized I wasn't wearing safety goggles and the way this spins it

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was basically throwing sawdust right in my face so here we

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go so uh there we

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go piece number one that I accidentally

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Drew on it while I was pulling it up is done let's find out if a fan fit shall

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we so they're going to kind of sit like there

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is although probably on the bottom of the cabinet and then I'll have to I'll

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have to filter them with uh maybe like some Silverstone filters or something

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like that um so there you go there'll be intakes though but the point is just do

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they fit and the answer is yes they do so these fans have little wire

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management Clips here and I realized either I can wire manage them under here

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which is just going to be kind of a pain in the butt or I can just have just the

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one clip hold them down and I can put them in place this

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way so I'll bring them up here manage

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them together over here and then route them to the fan splitter so well this is

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the Moment of Truth where we find out if uh they actually fit so far it's going

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really well there we go all right so that's how they'll go on

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good helper okay so my project has a helper now helper yeah you're a really

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good helper which of course means that I'm making really you know great

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progress at this point um anyway all the fans are on so I don't know if you have

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an angle to see the ones at the back there we go so all the fans are on and

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now I've added the Swift Tac Fan Hub so

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this has a moax power in as well as a pwm control lead that I'm actually not

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going to be using I'm just going to use this for power cuz I'm going to run all

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these fans at full speed they're only 1200 RPM fans so they're they're quite

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quiet so I'm just going to use the included Adhesive Mount here to Mount

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this in the back corner and other than that the cabinet itself I think uh for

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fear of getting ahead of myself is pretty much there uh mostly I didn't use

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grills but at the back for these fans I'm using grills just because with all

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the wires hanging around here I don't want anything getting caught in them

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another thing that I'm going to have to add later is um some kind of a filter

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for these bottom ones oh excuse me EXC me just because

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without a filter those are going to be drawing air directly off the floor so

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I've got a couple options for what I can use I ripped this off a Silverstone case

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ripped this off of a Corsair case but I

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I'll have to figure out a system for mounting it so I can easily get at it

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later oh yeah uh fan control in case I decide the fans are too loud I might use

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these inline resistors so as with any project like this um you know wife road

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blocks can be a bit of an issue and I got the approval for the time and money

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to spend on this little project and then it started taking a lot longer than

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originally advertised so I'm simplifying

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it a little bit totally my choice this

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is the way I wanted to do it not the way that I'm about to tell you so what I

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really wanted to do was I wanted to cut

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this up here okay and then just have

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this power lead lead to a power

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connector on the back of the case so I was just going to find somewhere and Dremel out a rectangular hole and then

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use these SC screws to secure it there then what I was going to do was I was

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going to create a custom adapter so I was going to plug this in here and then

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I was going to splice this one on here so that I could get a uh so that I could

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have the correct lead to plug into my fan controller so we're scrapping that

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and instead we're going to do it what my wife thinks is the more is the less

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ghetto way but I personally think is way more ghetto and we're just going to run

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a four pin Molex connector out this spot

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right here at the back where just like this where

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normally this piece closes down on top

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of the uh the PCI bracket so we're just going to kind of close it in like that

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and we're just going to have a lead like that so I'd love to hear your feedback

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was my way cutting holes in the case the more ghetto way or is my wife's way

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repurposing this hole and then just having a power supply cable hanging out

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here like it's so ugly not that I'm leading you in the direction of which

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way I think you should vote but there you go well if nothing else we've got

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power out the back of the case now so we're pretty much ready to rock all

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right so uh this is I guess a good opportunity to show you guys the

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internals of this case so there's a 140 mm fan in the front that takes in from

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that filtered intake this down here is what I'm going to have to cut up in

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order to get more air flow to this graphics card if it comes to that and

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then um other than that yeah I guess we've got this routed over to the side

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of the CPU socket here so it's going to be pretty much out of the way just going

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to this is my power supply with the custom shortened cables um for Mini ITX

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that I had in my old media PC so I changed my mind about how I'm going to

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mount the fan controller um I decided to screw it in

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just cuz it has spots for that so as long as these are small

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enough uh yeah it's not that ideal is it

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h as long as they don't split then as I go through

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them can they make

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itad yeah am I funny my

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funny there you go I got an endorsement from my 2-year-old I'm funny I'm funny

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to 2-year-olds so everything's wired back

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up now overall I'd say the project was uh well I mean I haven't seen

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temperatures yet but it went really well went really quickly although there was

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one sacrifice that had to be made the receiver dongle for my uh my air mouse

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SL keyboard thing that I actually find very very useful um got rolled over when

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I was showcasing the PC in the first place so that's a real shame but I guess

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now is the Moment of Truth Okay so we've got it put back in there um I'd say it's

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not quite as quiet as I'd like and what I'll probably do as a as a V2 of this of

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this little mod is get two four pin fan

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extensions and then change out the fans for pwm fans and then I'll go from the

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uh from the swifttech pwm splitter to the CPU header and then I'll go from my

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CPU Cooler out to the pwm splitter so I'll use those two extensions there and

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then I'll be able to have my CPU fan and then all four of the cabinet fans

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running according to CPU temp with the Motherboard BIOS so that'll be version

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two but for now it's it's definitely tolerable but let's see what the results are like so at idle we're looking at 41°

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which is a 10° Improvement and uh that is of course not

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the real test so let's get Tomb Raider

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going on and let's uh let's let her cook for a bit shall we okay so I've had the

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same scene running for about half an hour it's time to alt Tab out and see

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how we did GP temperature 94

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95° okay so that's still pretty toasty

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but core clock ah we're even getting

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some turbo boost so yes it's still warm um I think to to take it

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to the next level I would have to do something about the bottom of that

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system or install some kind of a blower

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type GPU so that I'm not recirculating the hot air within the system itself but

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what we've done is we've lowered the cabinet temperatures enough that the

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card is at least able to keep itself under control so there you go mission

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accomplished uh guys like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked

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sort of cuz I probably wouldn't do this on my weekend if this wasn't my job but

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I did it because I it was my job and I

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