October 20, 2004

Check it

Jury-rigged.

The fan on my video card finally crapped out, so while I shop around for a replacement, here's the interim solution: A 80mm fan blowing full power on the vacant heat sink, suspended under the card by fishing line. Fishing line.

To my complete surprise, the heatsink is actually not hot at all. No way will I dare taxing the card until it is no longer cooled by a big orange joke, but at least the card should survive for a while.

Posted by Alchemae at October 20, 2004 09:50 PM
Comments

Nothing about this shouts "good idea" to me.

Posted by: fugimax at October 21, 2004 12:18 AM

GOOD IDEA!

Posted by: rope at October 21, 2004 11:26 AM

This is even more hardcore than when I manually split my power cable with a knife to support an additional hard drive.

Posted by: deKaliber at October 21, 2004 02:48 PM