cooling a creative banshee

[Damned Angel]

anyone have a good idea on how to cool a creative voodoo banshee?? the diamond one comes with its own fan and heat sink, but the creative one only has a heatsink and I can't find a fan small enough to screw onto the heatsink. any and all ideas are apreciated.

[MuscleMan]

I have found that to help with cooling expansion cards in machines you can get a slot fan that mounts in like an expansion card but helps circulate the air better.

[trance]

I've found if you leave the case off and stick about a 10" floor fan directly into the case everything runs much cooler (if it hits the cpu it cools it by 20º). I've even experienced less lockups on my machine!

[lysergic]

Just did this for a customers, get a 30cm pent pro or 486 fan and screws right in to the heatsink. Only drawback is that they lost the use of one PCI slot, but the card is much cooler.

[rusabus]

the heatsink on my TNT2 card is just big enough to screw on a Pentium 2 heatsink fan. You should be able to find a 486 fan that will fit your Banshee. Maybe you'll be lucky, and it will have a big enoug heatsink for a larger fan. The bottom line is be creative. This is the inside of a computer, not a tank. You could maybe hold the fan on with some rubber bands or plastic zip ties. It wont take much.

[Damned Angel]

thanks for all the replys. this is how I solved the problem. Step one. took fan out of old powersupply and attached proper connector to it. step two. measure exact position of card inside of case relative to top and bottom of case. step 3. drill 4 mounting holes in side of case. strp 5 drill several larger vent holes on side of case . step 5. remove back slot cover above and below vid card. step 6. screw fan into place and add longer wiring to power connector on it (oops...too short to screw in and have case off at the same time. step 7. power up and bingo. 12v fan blowing cool air on both sides of card with the chassis fan moving the air current out of the two empty slots.

[H-Bomber]

hehe be creative Rusabus ... bet ya didnt think Damned Angel was gonna pull a stunt like that. Not that theres anything wrong with that. Go head long straight at the source of the problem ... Want better air flow? Drill holes into case and create better airflow by adding a fan, stuff the creative part, just get the job the done