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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 10:12:04 +0100
"jesop" wrote: Hi, I bought 2 new ATI AIW 8500DV cards last year on Ebay. Within 3 months the first card's fan became noisy and I got it exchanged from seller. Now the second card's fan is also getting noisy, but seller has gone out of business. I found out that ATI does not sell these fans as spares, and that RMA means sending in the whole card, and paying $50 once warrenty is over!!! A lot of money for a simple fan. Given the cronic failure of these fans (I searched and found many postings reporting ATI fan failures) I would like to put myself in a position where I have such fans as spares as apart from the fan issue the ATI AIW 8500DV is a great card that does all I need very well . I wonder if anyone could recommend a supplier who has a fan that can be fitted to the ATI AIW 8500DV. I have looked at replacing the fans with Zalman passive fans, but the heatsink on the ATI AIW 8500DV is bonded to graphic chip and does not come off without huge risk of damgage, and of course there are no fixing wholes on card that could cope with the weight of the Zalman heatsinks. The risk of damage is not "huge". Many people have reported removing that HSF without any trouble at all. Some report that it helps to freeze it first to make the adhesive brittle and others that warming it with a hair dryer to soften it helps, but many have just popped it off at room temperature. I've seen no reports at all of damage to the chip--any damage was to other components when the person attempting the removal applied leverage in the wrong place. As for coping with the weight, get some Arctic Silver epoxy and bond it on and the weight won't be a problem. You won't get it off again unless you mix in some of the nonadhesive thermal paste to weaken the bond. Thanks a lot for any help. I live in UK. -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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ATI AIW 8500DV - FAN
Hi,
I bought 2 new ATI AIW 8500DV cards last year on Ebay. Within 3 months the first card's fan became noisy and I got it exchanged from seller. Now the second card's fan is also getting noisy, but seller has gone out of business. I found out that ATI does not sell these fans as spares, and that RMA means sending in the whole card, and paying $50 once warrenty is over!!! A lot of money for a simple fan. Given the cronic failure of these fans (I searched and found many postings reporting ATI fan failures) I would like to put myself in a position where I have such fans as spares as apart from the fan issue the ATI AIW 8500DV is a great card that does all I need very well . I wonder if anyone could recommend a supplier who has a fan that can be fitted to the ATI AIW 8500DV. I have looked at replacing the fans with Zalman passive fans, but the heatsink on the ATI AIW 8500DV is bonded to graphic chip and does not come off without huge risk of damgage, and of course there are no fixing wholes on card that could cope with the weight of the Zalman heatsinks. Thanks a lot for any help. I live in UK. |
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Hi.
I put mine in a freezer (8500 AIW) for an hour or so. Popped out the old heatsink and fan with a wide and thin screwdriver. Then I cleaned the gpu, put some thermal grease (silver arctic etc..) and a drop of superglue to every corner of the new heatsink. If you use superglue, then it is quite easy to get the sink off.... No noise and cooler AIW Jari Then you just haveto clean the gpu. "jesop" kirjoitti viestissä ... Hi, I bought 2 new ATI AIW 8500DV cards last year on Ebay. Within 3 months the first card's fan became noisy and I got it exchanged from seller. Now the second card's fan is also getting noisy, but seller has gone out of business. I found out that ATI does not sell these fans as spares, and that RMA means sending in the whole card, and paying $50 once warrenty is over!!! A lot of money for a simple fan. Given the cronic failure of these fans (I searched and found many postings reporting ATI fan failures) I would like to put myself in a position where I have such fans as spares as apart from the fan issue the ATI AIW 8500DV is a great card that does all I need very well . I wonder if anyone could recommend a supplier who has a fan that can be fitted to the ATI AIW 8500DV. I have looked at replacing the fans with Zalman passive fans, but the heatsink on the ATI AIW 8500DV is bonded to graphic chip and does not come off without huge risk of damgage, and of course there are no fixing wholes on card that could cope with the weight of the Zalman heatsinks. Thanks a lot for any help. I live in UK. |
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