Cooling a Twinhan (1 Viewer)

[SweMart]

Hi,

The outside temp in Sweden has gone up 10C during the last week, this has caused some problems for one of my tuners. My FloppyDTV continues it's operation without any problem.

During lunch time it's impossible to watch TV using my Twinhan TER-CI, I checked the temp and it's really hot. I've got the following chassis:
http://www.apevia.com/product.php?pid=143&xcSID=e50c4591f396e3d54b76be8ddccf57a7

The PCI slots are fitted in the following way:
Twinhan CI Card - Twinhan Tuner - Empty - Asus Geforce 6600LE Silencer

Does anyone know of a good way of cooling this card? (Preperably without adding extra fans).

I've got some spare Zalman GPU RAM coolers, could these be used?

Any input would be appreciated!

Cheers,
Martin

 

[Callifo]

My 3 hauppauge tuners pump out a lot of heat, significantly more than the CPU combined. Not sure if you can ebay it or something but he PCI slot cooler out of an antec aria is a awesome. Makes no noise and produces a steady stream of hot air.

 

[SweMart]

Solved the problem by adding VGA(!) heatsink coolers on the TV chipset on the Twinhan, its 29C in my flat today and the stuttering hasn't occured after 3 hours of the watching live + recording stuff using my other FloppyDTV tuner.

Me so happy