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Open Air Cooler Question

Oscargot
By Oscargot
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Hi.

Soon I'll be changing out my reference r9 290x card (my ears are grateful) for something else. I was wondering what impact the open air cooler that most non-reference cards sport would have on nearby expansion cards (I have a small raid card (cheap) and a larger sound card (not cheap) under that, pictured below). Would the temperatures be damaging with a hot running card like a 290x or 390x (just as a worst case scenario)?

 

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temps shouldent be a problem, you seem to have ample space in your case

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Open air cooler pushes the air in the inward direction (like the reference card). So the hot air is not directly hitting the other cards (as you might have thought) out of the open air cooler gpu. Thus there is no possible way of damaging your other cards in a mid size pc case.   

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Open air cooler pushes the air in the inward direction (like the reference card). So the hot air is not directly hitting the other cards (as you might have thought) out of the open air cooler gpu. Thus there is no possible way of damaging your other cards in a mid size pc case.   

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