Does anyone know of a PCI-based cooling option for a Mac Pro 5,1? I have 8TB of HDD in there, an AMD Radeon Sapphire 7950, a combo HD-DVD/blu-ray drive; and it's running Monterey and it gets....warm. Any ideas?
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MP 1,1-5,1 PCI-based cooling options for Mac Pro 5,1?
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I want to cool all of it. Even though it runs Monterey, I can tel that it gets warmer. I could use a USB FAN or something like that I suppose, but I would want something that could work along with the fan systems and just keep it all nice and cool.
Then why not just spin up the fans a bit? Monterey won’t make the cMP run warmer, at least there is no such effect on my cMP.
Without actual numbers to discuss, it’s hard to know if your 7950 or cMP is too warm.
In most cases, there is no need to give the the cMP any extra cooling device (unless the room temperature is really very high. E.g. over 40C), but spin up the fan few hundred RPM is already enough.
Without actual numbers to discuss, it’s hard to know if your 7950 or cMP is too warm.
In most cases, there is no need to give the the cMP any extra cooling device (unless the room temperature is really very high. E.g. over 40C), but spin up the fan few hundred RPM is already enough.
I could do that but I would prefer to have a PCI-based fan instead of temporarily spin up the fans. I'm hoping for something quiet. I might not Need that, but if I can find a bus-powered gpu fan thatwoudl also serve as an overall cooling item that works with the 5,1; then that would be awesome. So far though, I'm only finding ones that need additional power.