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Part 1: Realizing my needs Ok so you might be wondering what is going on so i will explain.
My goal is to reach a stable overclock of 350MHZ on my radeon 9250 which has a default of 220-40MHZ so im going to do a bunch of stuff to try and get it there.
This is the Before Picture
Part 2: Finding Materials
So now i have to figure out how to help my video card get lower temps to get higher clocks. this is how this turned out \"Dad i need some kind of fan.\" \"What do you need one for?\" \"To blow at my video card so i can overclock it better.\" \"I have an old bathroom fan you can use that im keeping as a spare\"
And thats where this wild thing began
Materials: Scissors Cardboard Exacto rug cutting knife The Fan of coarse And a big ruler thing i never used
Part 3: Building the dang thing
The Bathroom Fan moves 70 cubic feet per minute and the volume of my computer case is just over 1 cubic foot. (i'll let you do the math) for those of you too lazy the air theorecticly would change inside the case 1.17 times a second.
So i then cut out a piece of cardboard a little bit bigger than my original side casing.
Then my bro painted it with his Graffiti and stencil skillzza
KKM = KrazyKaveMan
This is as far as i took pictures but right now i looks pretty much the same but with more duct tape
Part 4: The Results
Well it didnt turn out as well as i thought it would it seems my GPU has a Core Clock limit of around 320MHZ it runs just fine upto 315-18 Area but right when i hit 320 or above it jumps from about 0 artifact to 7000+ so i think i hit the roof. I even tried making duct work inside to guide the air aroung the gpu before it went into the exaust.
So in the end even though i didnt get my desired results... It was still a really fun and cool thing to do.
Last edited by krazykaveman on Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:07 pm; edited 1 time in total
Cool. I never thought I would see a bathroom fan attached to the side of a computer.
lol actually I've thought about doing the same thing. My dad has been remodeling our bathrooms, and putting in whisper-silent fans. They would be perfect. But, they're pretty expensive, at least for fans.
Antec \"super mini tower\" that I got at Best Buy for like $70 (I needed a new powersupply, and figured I'd get a case w/ one in it... and we had $50 of credit at BB. 300Watt PSU.
I had to cut the holes in the front myself.
Its not bad, but it is a little small inside. Pretty easy to work in, however.
Last edited by Greg M. on Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:40 pm; edited 1 time in total