Cooling ti4200 with 92mm fan???

Boomerang Rapido · Post by **Boomerang Rapido** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:48 am

I've seen a few people here mentioning it, but I'd appreciate if you could give me your experiences on this.

I'm planning on disconnection the 40mm fan on my ti4200 (stock speed. That is... no overclocking) and letting a 92mm fan blow over the heatsink instead.

I don't wanna install a zalman heatpipe cooler if I don't have to. I figure, if I only disconnect the stock fan (don't take anythign apart) I can still RMA the thing if I kill it

This should be an ok solution right!? Can I get away with running the 92mm fan at 5 volts? If not the could I do it with a 120mm, or would that be overkill?

Zyzzyx · Post by **Zyzzyx** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 8:51 pm

You should be fine. I ran my ti4200 with the stock fan unplugged for a couple months. And this was with no additional fan for it. The GPU got DAMN hot, but never did give me artifacts or errors in a 3DMark loop. So the addition of a 5v fan should do just fine.

al bundy · Post by **al bundy** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:03 pm

Zyzzyx wrote:...I ran my ti4200 with the stock fan unplugged for a couple months. And this was with no additional fan for it. The GPU got DAMN hot, but never did give me artifacts or errors in a 3DMark loop...

That is amazing. What did you eventually do with the card, did you end up putting a fan on it anyway?

Zyzzyx · Post by **Zyzzyx** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:52 pm

I eventually started feeling sorry for the lil bugger. Here I am thinking about turning the heat on in the house, and its wishing I had localized air conditioning.

Ended up putting a Zalman ZM17-CU on it. Figured that if it was doing fine with the puny stock heatsink and fanless, I really didn't need to go with a ZM80. Stuck the ZM17 on it, bent the fins out to resemble the 6000 cpu cooler and opened the PCI slot covers below it. There is now air drawn in the slots and across the cooler, then up to the case exhaust fans up top.

Still runs a bit toasty, but now I can rest my hand on the back of the GPU for awhile.

mirror · Post by **mirror** » Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:23 am

I recently removed the stock fan from my Leadtek Ti4200. I left the stock heatsink (which covers the ram) and replaced the fan with a stock AMD CPU fan (from my 2500xp).

The new fan is plugged into the motherboard, rather than the graphics card, which lets me run it at 2300rpm with Speedfan, at which point it is inaudible above my CPU fan (coolermaster). Big improvement! No artifacts on the card or lockups so far (it's running overclocked, 300/5xx as i recall).

The fins on the heatsink let me screw the fan straight onto the heatsink, so it wasn't a messy job.

dddp · Post by **dddp** » Tue Dec 23, 2003 8:59 am

yep, i've done this, but with an 80mm fan controlled by a fanmate on minimum speed

with the 92mm fan you'll find theres a large dead spot with no airflow, make sure you don't position the fan centrally above the stock heat sink cause the core won't get much airflow if you do

i mounted my 80mm fan at about a 30 degree angle to the card so that it blows across the surface of the heatsink rather than directly onto it, this lets the airflow blow into the cast in fins on the stock heatsink and cools the card better

kclman · Post by **kclman** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:54 am

I was thinking of doing the same thing as my vga silencer does not fit my 9600 pro, how did you mount it?

bobdoe · Post by **bobdoe** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 6:23 am

I have an abit siluro ti4200 and i mounted a 80mm panaflo right onto the heatsink itself. I took off the cheap plastic cover thingy and the fan altogether. Now its just a heatsink with an L1A over it at 5V. Seems to work fine and sounds really silent even if i put it up to 7-9V. Might put some pictures up if you want it.

kclman · Post by **kclman** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 1:22 pm

Pics would be great I was thinking id just use some superglue, thanks.

bobdoe · Post by **bobdoe** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:40 pm

Really crappy webcam

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tavarua88 · Post by **tavarua88** » Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:49 am

pics arent coming up for me, really curious as i have a gainward ti4200