Hot video card in server

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Published on 2010-04-01T12:40:59Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 12:43 UTC
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Not sure if this belongs here or Superuser (I looked at Superuser -- suspect there are more hardware gurus here).

I have a server that sits in a cabinet. It's connected to a small screen that is normally off. However, the video card is running at about 210 F all the time. The rest of the PC is pretty cool (getting temps from SpeedFan).

Any thoughts on a way to quiet/calm/cool the video card since it's never really doing anything anyway? I'm usually logged out on the server, and no screen saver defined. Windows is already set to turn off the screen for power saving at 5 minutes.

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