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sugar 'n spikes
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Greenwich
Posts: 16,347
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My 'Media Machine' was giving out some serious fan noise and I suspected one of the two rear mounted 60mm exhaust fans in the Thermaltake Bach case.
So I took them out, cleaned them, oiled them, and put them back in. Nope, wasn't them, stopped the Zalman CPU fan, stopped the front mounted 80mm fan, nope, wasn't them either. What the hell is that noise then? PSU? Uh, no, it was the fan on the video card, an Asus/Nvidia 7300GS 512Mb. I wouldn't have thought so much noise could come from such a little fan. The card is stil under warranty but that is really a lot of messing about so I rummaged through me spare bits and came up with a grafix card cooler from an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AGP card which died a while ago. And it fitted  A little cleaning with some label remover and isopropol alcohol, a dollop of Arctic Silver and there she be, an ATI fan mounted on an Nvidia card. Strange bedfellows eh?  Graphics CPU temp was 50C, now it's 42C, so a bit of an improvement there. In the pic below, the fan/heatsink below the card is the old one supplied by Asus with the card. 
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Rocket Scientist
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 16,071
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Haha, how ironic
 I didn't realise it was standard sizing for something like that!
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Internet Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Posts: 4,351
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thats pretty funny
glad it worked out for ya  I always take life with a grain of salt, ... a slice of lemon, ...and a shot of tequila I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out  One more step to enlightenment ... but which way ?   |
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Acruncher
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: A cabin in the woods by a river
Posts: 7,703
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Good game mate .
"There's a saying in Estonia that in order to see new things, you have to follow common paths - paths you know." Games people play, you take it or you leave it Things that they say, honor brite If I promise you the moon and the stars, would you believe it Games people play in the middle of the night ~Alan Parsons Project, Games People Play |
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