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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
I just got a new XFX 8800GT card and I love it....except the fan is REALLY loud. I see on NewEgg.com (where I bought it) that other reviewers have the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150273 Question: Is it possible to replace the stock cooling fan on these cards with a different cooling fan unit? If so, does anyone have a brand and/or online source for replacement cooling fans for XFX/nVidia cards? Thanks in advance. - Scott Smith: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/choppersmith |
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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
You can put a Zalman VF900 on it, but that is very tricky
to do. Problem is the 8800s seem to be uncleanable, and the 2sided thermal tape used to stick the heat sinks on the ram and mosfets doesn't work. The Zalman kit only has the ram heatsinks, and you have to buy other heat sinks for the 'fets. NewEgg has all the "other" stuff you need ... tape strips, and narrow heat sinks for the 'fets .... but I have not tried it, so I can't say it will work. I know that you MUST clean off the tape from the Zalman kit, and use the NewEgg tape. Then, if you get it all to stick and work, you use a manual speed control on the Zalman fan, and you can set it to an overspeed that is still totally silent ( about 1400 rpm .. or a little less ). All of that comes with the Zalman VF900. I'm not kidding about it being tricky to do. johns |
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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
From my earlier message
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinf...202-F2-EV03-A1 The good thing about this cooler is that it has been qualified by eVGA as an OEM unit, so both fitment and cooling capacity are known to be good. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "S. Smith" wrote in message ... I just got a new XFX 8800GT card and I love it....except the fan is REALLY loud. I see on NewEgg.com (where I bought it) that other reviewers have the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150273 Question: Is it possible to replace the stock cooling fan on these cards with a different cooling fan unit? If so, does anyone have a brand and/or online source for replacement cooling fans for XFX/nVidia cards? Thanks in advance. - Scott Smith: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/choppersmith |
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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
"S. Smith" wrote in message ... I just got a new XFX 8800GT card and I love it....except the fan is REALLY loud. I see on NewEgg.com (where I bought it) that other reviewers have the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150273 Question: Is it possible to replace the stock cooling fan on these cards with a different cooling fan unit? If so, does anyone have a brand and/or online source for replacement cooling fans for XFX/nVidia cards? Looks like XFX has totally changed there HSF on this card. I have the next model up, the XXX version that is core clocked at 670 and it has the reference HSF on it and is very quiet when idle, I've turned up the fan using RivaTuner to run at 60% when it hits over 60C, even at that speed the fan it is still pretty quiet. JLC |
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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:12:51 -0800, "JLC" jc@nospam wrote:
"S. Smith" wrote in message .. . I just got a new XFX 8800GT card and I love it....except the fan is REALLY loud. I see on NewEgg.com (where I bought it) that other reviewers have the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150273 Question: Is it possible to replace the stock cooling fan on these cards with a different cooling fan unit? If so, does anyone have a brand and/or online source for replacement cooling fans for XFX/nVidia cards? Looks like XFX has totally changed there HSF on this card. I have the next model up, the XXX version that is core clocked at 670 and it has the reference HSF on it and is very quiet when idle, I've turned up the fan using RivaTuner to run at 60% when it hits over 60C, even at that speed the fan it is still pretty quiet. JLC RivaTuner seems to have no effect on this fan. It runs loudly all the time, even when the system is idle. Any suggestions on what else I could try to fix this...or to replace the fan? - Scott Smith: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/choppersmith |
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New cooling fan on XFX 8800 GT?
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:16:39 -0600, S. Smith
wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:12:51 -0800, "JLC" jc@nospam wrote: "S. Smith" wrote in message . .. I just got a new XFX 8800GT card and I love it....except the fan is REALLY loud. I see on NewEgg.com (where I bought it) that other reviewers have the same issue. http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814150273 Question: Is it possible to replace the stock cooling fan on these cards with a different cooling fan unit? If so, does anyone have a brand and/or online source for replacement cooling fans for XFX/nVidia cards? Looks like XFX has totally changed there HSF on this card. I have the next model up, the XXX version that is core clocked at 670 and it has the reference HSF on it and is very quiet when idle, I've turned up the fan using RivaTuner to run at 60% when it hits over 60C, even at that speed the fan it is still pretty quiet. JLC RivaTuner seems to have no effect on this fan. It runs loudly all the time, even when the system is idle. Any suggestions on what else I could try to fix this...or to replace the fan? I think I'm just going to RMA this with NewEgg.com and return it. Maybe I'll replace it with one of the newer EVGA 9600GT cards instead. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130329 Anyone having good luck with those? - Scott Smith: MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/choppersmith |
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