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Fan Noise - Riva TNT2 Mod 64
I've got three monitors on my system, one being a built in Intel adapter and
two being Nvidia Riva TNT2 Mod 64 PCI cards. I'm not sure if the fan noise from the nvidia cards is getting worse or just whether my tolerance has been declining over the past year. Anyhow, my question is whether one can do anything to cripple some of the functions on the card to reduce its power consumption and thus kill the fan. I just use the monitors for routine business graphics and have no need at all for high speed or 3D or whatever. I have gone into the WinXP system and dropped the hardware accelerator setting to zip, but have not seen any other controls which might help any. I'm using the default XP driver for the card by the way. If I get a driver directly from nvidia will that help me any? Or do I just need to scrap the cards and get an old Matrox dual monitor card with no fans in the first place? Thanks... Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it) |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:23:57 GMT, Bill Martin
wrote: I've got three monitors on my system, one being a built in Intel adapter and two being Nvidia Riva TNT2 Mod 64 PCI cards. I'm not sure if the fan noise from the nvidia cards is getting worse or just whether my tolerance has been declining over the past year. Anyhow, my question is whether one can do anything to cripple some of the functions on the card to reduce its power consumption and thus kill the fan. I just use the monitors for routine business graphics and have no need at all for high speed or 3D or whatever. I have gone into the WinXP system and dropped the hardware accelerator setting to zip, but have not seen any other controls which might help any. I'm using the default XP driver for the card by the way. If I get a driver directly from nvidia will that help me any? Or do I just need to scrap the cards and get an old Matrox dual monitor card with no fans in the first place? Thanks... Bill -- (Remove KILLSPAM from my address to use it) I have an old 32MB TnT2 M64 AGP in my closet. It had came with a fan, but at the end of it's use, the fan quit working. I took the fan off, and just ran it with the heat sink. It never overheated, but I never tried overclocking it either. Just run it without the fan. As long as the heatsink is still attached to the chip, I doubt you'll have any problems. Mine ran 3D games fine using only the heatsink. |
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Anyhow, my question is whether one can do anything to cripple some of the
functions on the card to reduce its power consumption and thus kill the fan. I just use the monitors for routine business graphics and have no need at all for high speed or 3D or whatever. I have gone into the WinXP system and dropped the hardware accelerator setting to zip, but have not seen any other controls which might help any. I'm using the default XP driver for the card by the way. I would simply remove the hs/f altogether and stick on a simple passive hs salvaged from an old passive CPU or video. A TNT2 of any kind does not generate much heat. |
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