I've a poser for this august crowd to ponder .....
I've noticed that most of the new motherboards are designed to accept SLI. Also, most mid to high end VGA cards run hot. Why is it that motherboard manufacturers don't redesign the boards to accept aftermarket cooled VGA cards?
Case in point ....
My son's system has 2 8800GT's running in SLI. They both run hot. The VGA card closest to the CPU runs hotter because of the heat generated by the CPU and the other VGA card. He was having display problems when running games. We installed an aftermarket cooler and the card is running much cooler however the lower card is now running hot and there is no room to add any additional cooling because of connector spacing. The system has a ton of case fans and we've added more. The card still runs hotter than we would like.
Since SLI is becoming the norm with the option of TRI and Quad SLI, wouldn't it be better is the MB's had a larger footprint in the case and allow more cooler options?
Just a thought ...
Comments welcome
I've noticed that most of the new motherboards are designed to accept SLI. Also, most mid to high end VGA cards run hot. Why is it that motherboard manufacturers don't redesign the boards to accept aftermarket cooled VGA cards?
Case in point ....
My son's system has 2 8800GT's running in SLI. They both run hot. The VGA card closest to the CPU runs hotter because of the heat generated by the CPU and the other VGA card. He was having display problems when running games. We installed an aftermarket cooler and the card is running much cooler however the lower card is now running hot and there is no room to add any additional cooling because of connector spacing. The system has a ton of case fans and we've added more. The card still runs hotter than we would like.
Since SLI is becoming the norm with the option of TRI and Quad SLI, wouldn't it be better is the MB's had a larger footprint in the case and allow more cooler options?
Just a thought ...
Comments welcome
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