Need Help: heat sink fan just died on 9700 Pro

Can anyone suggest where I can get a replacement fan for my 9700 pro.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.


Roo

manhattan makes a good quality cooler for graphic chipsets and main board
chipsets and will set you back about 15 bucks

"ROO" <rault@eudoramail.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone suggest where I can get a replacement fan for my 9700 pro.
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> Roo
>
>

This is a chance to get a good aftermarket cooler and try overclocking your
9700 pro. Try the Zalman website. I hear they have some excellent and very
quiet cooling products for video cards.

Jk

"matthew utt" <viper15c@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
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> manhattan makes a good quality cooler for graphic chipsets and main board
> chipsets and will set you back about 15 bucks
>
> "ROO" <rault@eudoramail.com> wrote in message
> news:j8qdnZ7mb6mPWF-iRVn-gg@comcast.com...
> > Can anyone suggest where I can get a replacement fan for my 9700
pro.
> > Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Roo
> >
> >
>
>

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:52:04 GMT
"Thomas Andrén" <thomas_andren67@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "ROO" <rault@eudoramail.com>
> > Can anyone suggest where I can get a replacement fan for my 9700
> > pro.
> > Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Roo
> >
>
>
> Zalman heatpipe needs a fan if you plan to use ut on a 9700 pro, its
> heavy and expensive too, and some people say that its not quiet
> either.

Whether it _needs_ a fan depends on the case design and the airflow
through the case. As for being quiet, if there is no fan then what
is the noise source?

> On all reviews i have read they recommend a fan on Zalman
> heatpipe, because it gets very hot,

Without a fan of course it does. The question is whether it gets
hotter than the chip allows. Unfortunately ATI does not put the spec
sheets for their chips up on the Web site so we have no way of knowing
what the limit is for the R350.

Note, by the way, that the 9700 series boards had problems unrelated to
the CPU temperature--the cooling provided for the voltage regulators was
marginal. This issue would not be addressed by any heat sink attached
to the GPU chip.

> and forget OC.!

Why? Put a big loud fan on it if overclocking is important to you.
It's not made for that though.

> I changed to Artic
> Cooling VGA Silencer, its cheap, has 2 speeds and makes no noice at
> all in silent mode. Even at full speed its more quiet than stock fan.
> Best of all is that my card runs cooler now and im only running this
> cooler in silent mode all the time.
> www.arctic-cooling.com/en/products/vga_silencer/

Site's busted. Only gives me the main menu and whines about Javascript
being busted. Using three different browsers on two different operating
systems.

> /Thomas A/

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--John
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(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

"ROO" <rault@eudoramail.com>
> Can anyone suggest where I can get a replacement fan for my 9700 pro.
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
> Roo
>


Zalman heatpipe needs a fan if you plan to use ut on a 9700 pro, its heavy
and expensive too, and some people say that its not quiet either. On all
reviews i have read they recommend a fan on Zalman heatpipe, because it gets
very hot, and forget OC.! I changed to Artic Cooling VGA Silencer, its
cheap, has 2 speeds and makes no noice at all in silent mode. Even at full
speed its more quiet than stock fan. Best of all is that my card runs cooler
now and im only running this cooler in silent mode all the time.
www.arctic-cooling.com/en/products/vga_silencer/

/Thomas A/