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GF4 and Zalman cooler
Hi all,
I have a PNY Verto GF4 TI4600 graphics card and the fan on it has an annoying habit of spinning faster after approx 10mins. Before this happens my PC is relatively quiet but when the fan spins faster you can really notice the noise increase. So I have been looking at replacing the fan with a some form of fanless heatsink. I came accross the Zalman ZM80A-HP which looks like it will do the job but I am wondering if anyone is using one of these on this particular card and how good it is, or even if it fits ok. Thanks for any help. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 05/06/2003 |
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On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:42:43 +0100, "Splontoon"
wrote: Hi all, I have a PNY Verto GF4 TI4600 graphics card and the fan on it has an annoying habit of spinning faster after approx 10mins. Before this happens my PC is relatively quiet but when the fan spins faster you can really notice the noise increase. So I have been looking at replacing the fan with a some form of fanless heatsink. I came accross the Zalman ZM80A-HP which looks like it will do the job but I am wondering if anyone is using one of these on this particular card and how good it is, or even if it fits ok. Thanks for any help. If a fan starts getting noisey due to vibration, wear, loss of lubricant, it's good to replace it. However, from your description it could instead be that the card has thermal monitoring, and intentionally increases fan speed when the card gets hotter. Unless the original fansink was very poor, it likely does a better job of cooling the card than any passive 'sink like the Zalman can ever hope to. If the manufacturer decided that the card needs more cooling, I don't think it wise to instead provide the card with LESS cooling. As for who makes quiet VGA coolers, I don't know... I have drawerfulls of old heatsinks and find just about any old pentium heatsink with low RPM fan or "average" fan running at 5-7V (by an adapter or inline resistor) works well and is quiet, inexpensive. Well, for me it's free, since as i wrote, there are plenty of old heatsinks sitting around. Dave |
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I am using one and it does a great job cooling. The reason it does is that
my two intake case fans at bottom are blow air right over the heatsink so it helps a lot to have good air flow in your case when your card is running in 3D mode. -- Regards (-: Gary Hegan :-) "Splontoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have a PNY Verto GF4 TI4600 graphics card and the fan on it has an annoying habit of spinning faster after approx 10mins. Before this happens my PC is relatively quiet but when the fan spins faster you can really notice the noise increase. So I have been looking at replacing the fan with a some form of fanless heatsink. I came accross the Zalman ZM80A-HP which looks like it will do the job but I am wondering if anyone is using one of these on this particular card and how good it is, or even if it fits ok. Thanks for any help. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 05/06/2003 |
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I have one intake fan at the base of my case and no obstructions between
that and the cards. I've moved all my PCI cards to the bottom and left the card slot covers off at the back of the case, so hopefully the air blown over the GF4 card will be carried outside of the case. Temp wise my system is relatively cool at the moment under stress so I think I'll give this cooler a go. Thanks for you advice! "Gary Hegan" wrote in message ... I am using one and it does a great job cooling. The reason it does is that my two intake case fans at bottom are blow air right over the heatsink so it helps a lot to have good air flow in your case when your card is running in 3D mode. -- Regards (-: Gary Hegan :-) "Splontoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have a PNY Verto GF4 TI4600 graphics card and the fan on it has an annoying habit of spinning faster after approx 10mins. Before this happens my PC is relatively quiet but when the fan spins faster you can really notice the noise increase. So I have been looking at replacing the fan with a some form of fanless heatsink. I came accross the Zalman ZM80A-HP which looks like it will do the job but I am wondering if anyone is using one of these on this particular card and how good it is, or even if it fits ok. Thanks for any help. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 05/06/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.488 / Virus Database: 287 - Release Date: 05/06/2003 |
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Splontoon said this...
Temp wise my system is relatively cool at the moment under stress so I think I'll give this cooler a go. I have one replacing the grotty fan on my ti4200. I placed a case fan to blow over the Zalman unit to help the cooling and so far everything seems to be going great. No hickups, lockups or artifacts even when gaming hard so I'm fairly confident it's working OK. -- º~ dªv¡d ~º |
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