Building a quiet gaming system inside SilverStone SG03, part 3
The graphics card is AMD Radeon HD3850 cooled by Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 with two 92mm Nexus fans installed on it. As we anyway need to strip the whole machine to pieces, I swap the fans and clean the heatsink:
Turns out the cleaning and swapping was indeed a good idea. In conditions like this the fan bearings will break over time, however good fans you use:
The Accelero S1 leans to the graphics card PCB with plastic standoffs seen in the middle, we need to clear then when mounting fans:
To run both VGA fans from a single Zalman Fanmate 2 I soldered together an Y splitter:
The fans are mounted by two layers (remember, we need to clear the plastic standoffs) of double-sided tape on each four corners and zip ties on two opposite corners:
Graphics card cooler with Y splitter but with not zip ties yet:
The Accelero S1 overhangs the graphics card PCB by hefty amount. Luckily this is the direction where we have plenty of space in SG03:
And now we are in this stage, as advertised:
Next and last page: putting it all together.
