I dropped my cinewave card temp maybe 30 degrees in dual 1 gig "Lava Mac"(pic enclosed)

	I dropped my cinewave card temp maybe 30 degrees in dual 1 gig "Lava Mac"(pic enclosed) by deadhead on Oct 4, 2002 at 3:10:27 pm Here is a pic of my workaround. I bought a PCI slot cooling fan and removed the PCI bracket from the front. I removed the PCI slot cover from the empty slot next to the cinewave, then mounted the fan outside the mac case, blowing in through the open slot. I had some 4 pin hard drive power extension cables to power the fan from inside the mac. Luckily I didn't have to make a bracket to mount the fan, since my ICE card has an external box the same size as the fan attached to it. I just had to tape it on. The fan blows directly on the cinewave's heat sink, but keeps the entire card cool to the touch. My card doesn't show a temp readout, but it used to be not warm, but HOT to the touch. I also belive the mac's high speed fan kicks in less than it did previously, so perhaps this isn't really altering the macs cooling scheme negatively. ALthough I do loose 1 PCI slot with this method, I belive the tradeoff is worth it. I have been playing around with raiding the mac's internal ATA100 bus, and have been able to play back none codec movies (40 meg/sec) off it in OSX. When cinewave runs in OSX I am planning on trying the internal raid for dual stream, and forgoing an external scsi raid. The fan is not too loud mounted externally,(certainly much less than the mac internal running at high speed all the time as some have proposed) though I plan on seeing if I can slow it down, since it has more than enough CFM to cool the card. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index