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I was doing HDD swaps on the OG, and noticed the GPU cooler was getting quite hot, so I decided to draw up and print a shroud to keep the chips cool while I worked on the boxes,and came up with this: It made quite a difference to the temperatures, especially the GPU. It was only a temporary measure, to cool the GPU while I had the box apart, and when I tried to fit the drives back in, neither would fit, so I decided to have a go at making a shroud that would fit with the drives installed... Nightmare! Those things are really close to everything. I printed a few designs, to try to get one to fit perfectly, and I finally managed a couple of designs that allowed both drives to fit perfectly, but it meant losing the ramp to the GPU cooler. This was the first one: This one meant there was a little bit of cutting involved on the DVD cradle, so I designed another, which I won't post, because neither of them worked worth a shite. The one in the picture dropped the CPU temp by about 1 degree at idle, while the GPU temp stayed the same. The gpu cooling would have been much better if I didn't have to lose the ramp in order to fit the DVD drive, so I'll probably make one for my DVD drive-less box, but what an absolute waste of time! Although the original one did work well