What size heatsink for passive cooling on these cards?

Ned Slider · Post by **Ned Slider** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:17 pm

Hi,

I have nVidia GeForce2 Pro and Geforce2 MX400 cards that both have noisy fans on.

I have a selection of old heatsinks and want to remove the old HSF's and epoxy passive heatsinks on in their place.

So what sort of size of heatsink do these cards require for passive cooling?

Can anyone link to pictures of any similar passively cooled cards as a reference?

I don't want to use one of those Zalman heatpipe graphics card coolers.

Thanks,

Ned

cansan · Post by **cansan** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:21 pm

I had a GF2 MX200, it had a passive heatsink. I would estimate the size as: 50x50x10mm. It got hot to the touch but no stability problems. It had fins like the passive northbridge coolers (obviously a lot shorter).

Ned Slider · Post by **Ned Slider** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:26 pm

Thanks

I guessed the MX400 shouldn't be too much of a problem as there are passive models available, but I don't know if there were ever passive models of the GeForce2 Pro card. The fan died on it a while ago and it got very hot and I started having stability problems before I notice it and replaced the fan.

Ned