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Dead Fan on my Video Card.....
Name: Nick Date: December 10, 2003 at 05:53:32 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: XP1800+/512Mb
Comment:
I have an ASUS V8200 card which is 2 years old... just recently the fan crapped itself. ASUS support is absolutely hopeless... i have to return my whole card to them (depite it being only a failed fan), they cannot send me a new fan under warranty.. and if it is out of warranty they won't even sell me a new fan.... Does anybody know of an aftermarket solution which is compatable with the heatsink on this card so that I don't have to start pulling stuff apart.....
Name: justin_b31 Date: December 10, 2003 at 06:09:43 Pacific
Reply:
you can grab any thermaltake video card heatsink and use it.
It will come with adhesive thermal tape but I would recommend you finding a more stable solution like thermal epoxy
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Response Number 2
Name: ranchhand Date: December 10, 2003 at 07:14:57 Pacific
Reply:
You can also get radical. Same thing happened with my ATI8500LE. They would replace the fan free, but I got to send them the card (in Canada), etc.
I had an old CPU heatsink and fan; I removed the onboard card fan (left the heatsink on), removed the CPU fan from the heatsink (4 tiny screws only) drilled one additional hole for screw access on the CPU fan mount, and screwed it straight into the V.Card heatsink. Talk about COOLING! This card base clocks at 250, I used Rage overclocker utility to boost it up to 285 with no problems or overheating, and tonight I'm going for 300MHz! :0)
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