Card Cooler & Chipset cooler

The top of my video card get quite warm, as does the chip-set.  This card will cool both with a thin 60mm fan.

I started over on the board.

Parts:

• bread-board
• ripped slot bracket from an old PCI video card
• 40, 60 mm or 80 mm fan
• As much shit as you can hang on it to make it look cool.

 

I've changed the breadboard to a smaller piece and have only one 60mm fan for this time.

I needed some practice with the hole saw.  The drill press and hole saw are some of the best investments I've made.

• hold your parts in a vise and back it up under cutting tool.

Here are the parts:

• 60mm fan.

• This perfboard from Radio Shack.

• An old slot bracket from some old card like a modem, network card or an old video card.  Mine came from an old PCI video card. 

• Old ISA Port cards usually have two nice attachment points, sometimes with screws. 

• Some of this, they sell in bulk on ebay.

• wire, connectors and whatever.

• I use these connectors from radio shack.

• to connect to Molex or your fan controller.

 Super-glue held the fan in position, until I could drill the four holes for the screws.

 I run the drill press though the top of the fan so there is no need to locate the holes.

I've wrapped the fan in stainless steel shim stock.

This was a very simple and fast mod.  The acrylic version will happen later, when I get time.

This is more like it's true color as the flash burned the first two and I had to remove some gamma from the photos.

 

 This will plug into a project box I have already had in the bottom of my tower.  This is pre-wired to a standard 6-port, dual voltage switch bay.  

80mm fan with a clear acrylic body.

See it Here