Leadtek GF4 without fans?

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:34:35 GMT, bl wrote:

hi,

i have a leadtek gf4 4400. one of those ones with the gigantic heatsinks
on it. it's probably almost two years old now. the fan makes noise. in
the past when that's happened, i cleaned the fans, and it was ok for
another few months. but now it seems the cleaning aint good enough. i'm
going to get some replacement fans or a slot fan or something, but in
the meantime, is it safe to run it without those piddly little fans? i
mean, it still has the heatsink. i'm not overclocking. and i will avoid
playing any games if i have to. i just want to be able to boot into
windows and run my apps because at the moment it makes too much noise to
leave on.

thanks.


I have the Leadtek 4600 ultra, also with the large wrap-around heatsink.

Why don't you mount a nice quiet 80mm fan to your card similar to I have done...
and junk those 2 small noisy fans...very simple to do indeed.

See the pics at the following link which shows you how to do it without even
marking the original heatsink... AIS.. very simple indeed and well worth while.

http://www.pbase.com/cameron

You do lose the slot below the AGP but a small price to pay for silence/good
cooling.

HTH you.

Regards

John

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:34:35 GMT, bl wrote:

hi,

i have a leadtek gf4 4400. one of those ones with the gigantic heatsinks
on it. it's probably almost two years old now. the fan makes noise. in
the past when that's happened, i cleaned the fans, and it was ok for
another few months. but now it seems the cleaning aint good enough. i'm
going to get some replacement fans or a slot fan or something, but in
the meantime, is it safe to run it without those piddly little fans? i
mean, it still has the heatsink. i'm not overclocking. and i will avoid
playing any games if i have to. i just want to be able to boot into
windows and run my apps because at the moment it makes too much noise to
leave on.

thanks.


I have the Leadtek 4600 ultra, also with the large wrap-around heatsink.

Why don't you mount a nice quiet 80mm fan to your card similar to I have
done...
and junk those 2 small noisy fans...very simple to do indeed.

See the pics at the following link which shows you how to do it without
even
marking the original heatsink... AIS.. very simple indeed and well worth
while.

http://www.pbase.com/cameron

You do lose the slot below the AGP but a small price to pay for
silence/good
cooling.

HTH you.

Regards

John

So how did you make the mount for the fan. Also what is that wire (a fan?) I
see connected to a crocodile clip and attached to a hd screw?

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:11:23 GMT, "David"
wrote:


"John" wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 05:34:35 GMT, bl wrote:

hi,

i have a leadtek gf4 4400. one of those ones with the gigantic heatsinks
on it. it's probably almost two years old now. the fan makes noise. in
the past when that's happened, i cleaned the fans, and it was ok for
another few months. but now it seems the cleaning aint good enough. i'm
going to get some replacement fans or a slot fan or something, but in
the meantime, is it safe to run it without those piddly little fans? i
mean, it still has the heatsink. i'm not overclocking. and i will avoid
playing any games if i have to. i just want to be able to boot into
windows and run my apps because at the moment it makes too much noise to
leave on.

thanks.


I have the Leadtek 4600 ultra, also with the large wrap-around heatsink.

Why don't you mount a nice quiet 80mm fan to your card similar to I have
done...
and junk those 2 small noisy fans...very simple to do indeed.

See the pics at the following link which shows you how to do it without
even
marking the original heatsink... AIS.. very simple indeed and well worth
while.

http://www.pbase.com/cameron

You do lose the slot below the AGP but a small price to pay for
silence/good
cooling.

HTH you.

Regards

John

So how did you make the mount for the fan. Also what is that wire (a fan?) I
see connected to a crocodile clip and attached to a hd screw?



The mount is simple 2 short lengths of plastic extrusion from the local DIY shop
which I epoxied at the correct spacing to a square piece of plastic so it slots
into the sides of or the Leadtek heatsink. The fan mounting screws also go
through the angled extrusion plastic to make it even more rigid.

I used an old plastic lid in which I cut the fan hole, but I can see no reason
why you could not mount the fan directly to the plastic extrusion directly as
long as the width is correct so it just slides into the heatsink slots nicely.
Something like this...

________
__|_ Fan __|__
|_ _|

The wire that clamped to the side of the hard-drive is thermal sensor which used
to control the flow of air to the hard-drives.

I've since moved on from that case quite a while now as that case was quite a
few years old... I do however still use the same video card with that same 80mm
fan mod, it lets me overclock the card quite a bit while still keeping it cool
and at the same time keeping the noise down.
I left the pics on there... in case anybody else fancied doing something
similar, it really is a very simple mod which is definately worth doing...
The advantage of this simple mod is it does not alter the card in any way, just
keep your 2 small fans somewhere safe in case you ever need use of the warranty.

I dont like a noisy machine, but with stuff getting faster we have to tolerate
some noise unforunately especially if ones running a fast cpu and video card
etc. but the way to go is definately with larger slower fans to keep the noise
down!

All the best

John

The GeforceFX can run without the fan in 2D. I don't see why your LeadTek
GF4 cannot. You should experience artifacts or lockups before any damage is
done.

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"bl" wrote in message ...
hi,

i have a leadtek gf4 4400. one of those ones with the gigantic heatsinks
on it. it's probably almost two years old now. the fan makes noise. in
the past when that's happened, i cleaned the fans, and it was ok for
another few months. but now it seems the cleaning aint good enough. i'm
going to get some replacement fans or a slot fan or something, but in
the meantime, is it safe to run it without those piddly little fans? i
mean, it still has the heatsink. i'm not overclocking. and i will avoid
playing any games if i have to. i just want to be able to boot into
windows and run my apps because at the moment it makes too much noise to
leave on.

thanks.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:25:03 GMT, "First of One" wrote:

The GeforceFX can run without the fan in 2D. I don't see why your LeadTek
GF4 cannot. You should experience artifacts or lockups before any damage is
done.

The FX has smartpower, it slows the workload of the GPU when in 2D, the GF4
series is not that smart... its simply runs full whack all the time so some form
of cooling is required. The trick is sufficient cooling with no noise!

John