PCI Slot System Exhaust Blower Fan

[888888]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-888-602&depa=1



Anybody try these? Are they any good?

[glockjs]

if your gonna get something like that get the one antec makes

[888888]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-129-025&depa=0

Hmmm. Pricier but it looks like it's worth it.

I should probably mention that I am mainly interested in such devices to cool a new video card because of overclocking.

[budz]

I purchased 2 generic PCI SLOT SYSTEM EXHAUST BLOWER FAN's from COMPUSA $8.99 each does the job well.

[Localboy8o8]

i bought the CompUSA one and after a year, it flaked out on me (constant loud blowing noise), then i bought a Antec one and its sorta having the same problem (about 6 months later)(on and off again), but after a few seconds (like 15-30 seconds) it'd go away...

[rallynavvie]

Make sure to set that to intake or reverse your AGP card fan since the two will be fighting if that thing is next to it and set to exhaust. I personally do not believe in slot fans unless they're built into the video card. Also because I rarely have available PCI slots on my machines.

[JSB]

On my old Dell 4600 I had an empty slot above my APG card... so i though what the heck there was no PCI slot there just a dead slot. The slot cooler was fighting the exhaust fan for my CPU

Not good!

JSB

[888888]

It is going to be cooling a card with just a heatsink, no fan.

[Cobra]

What card is it? You may want to consider fitting additional cooling to the card itself if you want to overclock it heavily.

[glockjs]

i got this one, it does a really good job...since it blows the air directly onto the vid card instead of just getting rid of air

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=120565&Sku=V13-4200

[888888]

What card is it? You may want to consider fitting additional cooling to the card itself if you want to overclock it heavily.

Radeon 9550, most likely something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-164-019&depa=1

I am not gonna overclock it heavily, just a little bit.

i got this one, it does a really good job...since it blows the air directly onto the vid card instead of just getting rid of air

I saw that one too. I read it is pretty noisy. If there is one thing I hate, it is noisy computers.

[BrainStorm69]

Those type can be pretty noisy. If you have a card with no fan on the heatsink, my experience is that you'd do better just bolting on a decent sized 40mm fan to the heatsink than using a pci slot fan.

[888888]

Thanks for all you guys' input. I think that I will probably pass on getting one of these fans and minimize or rule out overclocking my upcoming video card. Mainly, the issue is noise for me.

[zzyzzx]

I have one of these and I love it.

[Capmaster]

8) Four bucks

I've got an order coming up with Newegg and I might just have them throw a couple of those in there too.

I'm a real fan of good cooling setups.

[Skoorb]

I have one and I've not even bothered to put it back, after my last build. What I do have though is two holes drilled in the side of my case with $9 Compusa colorfans (antec) in there. One guns fresh air at the CPU and another guns it right at the vid card. Then I have another $9 fan acting as an exhaust. This keeps nice fresh air going through the case.

I recall that my PCI slot fan didn't seem to push that much air, whereas the compusa ones claim to move about 34 cfm - which is pretty good bit. They're also relatively quiet.

[ViRaL1]

I have a couple systems with those in there. I've never done any checking to see how much of a temp difference they make, but nothing's overheated so far. I'm waiting for the new PCI-E slot fans.