biglawdog1
03-30-2004, 09:44 AM
Purchased a 9800 XT and an Arctic Cooler VGA vid card fan from NewEgg. I've read really good things about the Cooler and it said it was compatible with radeon 9200-up so I bought it with my XT. However, I get both in the mail and notice on the back of the cooler box, it notes "compatible with all radeon cards EXCEPT XT". Newegg never mentioned that on their website. So I had a couple of questions.
1. Why is it not compatible and is there any work around ? It doesn't look much bigger then the card but I dont want to try to install it and screw up my vid card. I've emailed the arctic folks and they haven't responded.
2. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good and quiet fan for the XT (assuming I can't use the Arctic VGA), thats easy to install (I'm not tech stupid but I'm not as adept as many of the people on this board at installing hardware).
3. I've read that the XT fan is actually pretty decent - I won't be doing any overclocking with it and have a case that keeps everything pretty cool. Would you suggest replacing the fan and heatsink on the XT or just let it be ?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
(reposted from vid cards forum- sorry for redundency)
1. Why is it not compatible and is there any work around ? It doesn't look much bigger then the card but I dont want to try to install it and screw up my vid card. I've emailed the arctic folks and they haven't responded.
2. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good and quiet fan for the XT (assuming I can't use the Arctic VGA), thats easy to install (I'm not tech stupid but I'm not as adept as many of the people on this board at installing hardware).
3. I've read that the XT fan is actually pretty decent - I won't be doing any overclocking with it and have a case that keeps everything pretty cool. Would you suggest replacing the fan and heatsink on the XT or just let it be ?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
(reposted from vid cards forum- sorry for redundency)