New cooling fan for Nvidia Ti4200

[Dswissmiss]

Hi.
I have a Chaintech Ti4200 and the fan on it isnt sitting properly and making noise. I'm getting a new card soon, but I wanted to give this one to a friend. Where would I find replacement fans for that card, or do I have to go and buy the entire video card cooling kit?
Any links to such fans would be appreciated.

thanx
Dswissmiss

[Cricket]

Is the fan a regular looking one (like a smaller 80mm case fan) or a special molded one to fit the card?

If it's a normal fan, you should be able to find a replacement somewhere...try Radio Shack or this on-line cooling vendor. (http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/26/cat26.htm?530) You'll have to find out what size the fan is though...my guess is it's a 50mm.

:) Cricket

[Dswissmiss]

http://www.baluma.com/hardware/graficos/Chaintech_GF4Ti4200_AGP8X/AGP8X_gr.jpg

that's the biggest pic i could find. their website seems to have some bugs right now. when you take that nice looking gold plate off, it does look like a small 80mm fan. can anyone confirm?

thank you

hmm, just looked at your link, the fan on my card, if i remember correctly, doesn't have the plastic around it like case fans, just the fan itself.

[Cricket]

Oh...I see. You may need to contact Chaintech to see about a replacement cooling fan...or you could just remove that whole gold thing and install a completely new heatsink/fan unit for the GPU. Take a look at these GPU coolers (http://2cooltek.safeshopper.com/51/cat51.htm?530).

:) Cricket

[Dswissmiss]

Thanx man!
I think it would be a cool experience to change the whole thing. All the fans come with heat spreaders, does that mean I need to remove the old ones, or does that depend on the card? I have already removed the entire gold thing, and it looks pretty simple to replace.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by Dswissmiss
I think it would be a cool experience to change the whole thing. All the fans come with heat spreaders, does that mean I need to remove the old ones, or does that depend on the card?You mean the RAM heatsinks? You can just leave the ones that are on your card if you want to or you can change them to the new ones. I don't think they'll make that much difference unless you're overclocking your video card. I think finned heatsinks work better than a flat piece of metal though.

:) Cricket

[Blakhart]

The copper Tt cooler for agp chipsets is a drop in install and cools very well. It comes with ram sinks too. I put the flat sinks on the side that has the fan, since the finned ones will cool better than the flats on top of the card where airflow is less. I used a drop of superglue at each ram corner with artic silver in the middle of each sink.