First post, by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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EDIT: it's Radeon HD 7770 instead of 7700. Pardon the typo, it was a long day.
I'm building a system based on Biostar A780L3G mATX mobo, Athlon II X4 CPU, PowerColor AX7770 (Radeon HD 7700) GPU, and Sound Blaster Audigy 2. The components are shown on the following photo.
Primary components.
The PowerColor AX7770 is a dual-slot card... kind of. Since the motherboard is mATX, the Audigy 2 blocked the card's fan. But not entirely. There is small slit, probably 3 mm or 4 mm, between the Radeon HD 7700 and the Audigy 2. The slit is quite large. From the photo below, the mobo is visible through the slit.
The Radeon HD 7700 and the Sound Blaster Audigy 2. Note the slit, which probably allows some air.
The Radeon HD 7700 and the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 when installed on the mobo without the sound card.
It should be noted that the PowerColor AX7770 is not a close air duct GPU. So it is unlike typical dual-slot GPU, which has close duct GPU, whose fan sucks air into its air duct and then blows it to the rear of the computer. The airduct is pretty much open, which lots of space to allow airflow.
So, based on conditions above, is it okay to have the Audigy 2 (somewhat) blocking the GPU fan? I need the Audigy 2 to test if I could use Virtual Audio Cable to channel the Audigy 2's multi-channel analog output to the Radeon HD 7700's HDMI output. If that's the case, then I could have uncompressed multi-channel PCM from EAX games processed by my receiver's Yamaha CinemaDSP.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman.
