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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits  Just curious as to why the GPU is blowing air onto the HDD at all?
In my PC case the HDDs are at the front with a 120mm fan blowing onto them toward the back of the case. My GPU is exhausting its hot air also out of the back of the case. And, in most PC cases I've seen the HDDs are not near the GPU at all. So, I'm a bit puzzled by this. |
I am using a gateway computer that has the video card that I installed. The video card is open on the part that is facing the front of the computer, it blowing that way but not as much as in the back, but still manages to travel to the hard drive. I do not have any cooling on the front of my computer at all. My cooling is on the video card, the heat sink pipes, heat sink, about 60mm fan, and looks to me like the video card is open on both ends. I have on 80mm fan in the back of my case, a stock fan for the cpu, with a vent on the side, no heat comes out of the vent. The video card is only 2-3 inches lower than the video card than the hard drive, if they were the same height, the only thing that would fit in between them would be a pinky. My case is much smaller than those used for pc gaming. the size is 16.34" x 7.09" x 11.22". Not big even though everything else is running cool, video card 60c right after playing, cpu, 40c right after playing, motherboard, 42c right after playing. That is best of my ability to explain the where the heat is coming from.
