Never thought the most time consuming thing about a local llm setup would be cooling.

I bought some V620 cards for the home lab and these suckers run HOT. I designed and printed a hilariously big fan shroud/adapter for a case fan (140mm) to push air into it, but they still ran at about 90C even after putting more thermal paste on.

Everyone on reddit was right -- i should have used a centrifugal fan, not an axial fan. Snagged a centrifugal from a local shop and currently printing out an adapter for...