Can I replace my GF3Ti200 fan with a large heatsink?

[Skalman]

It's a Point of View GF3Ti 200. It can overclock to about 240Mhz now but I want to make my computer quiter and wonder if it will work at stock speed or slightly overclocked with passive cooling? If it can, what heat sinks do you recommend?

 

[Triumph]

well, if you replace your GF3 with a large heat sink, your computer will be quieter, because it won't boot without a video card.

 

[BlueWeasel]

You probably can't even hear the fan on your GF3 because your power supply is "drowning" out the GF3 fan. It is so quiet anyway, why even bother taking off the fan? And I doubt if it would be stable without a fan and just a heatsink. That fan is on there for a reason, and it isn't for us to be able to O/C the core

 

[DigitalLove]

I just recently replaced all my fans on my system including the powersupply fan, and now the little fan on my Gainward Geforce3ti200 is the loudest. I removed the stock heatsink and put on a bigger heatsink. Had an old cardcooler and modified it with some Panaflos, and now my system is quiet. So yes you can, but you will still need a fan somewhere (like a cardcooler). My 1st attempt was without any fan, just bare heatsink on the Gainward. It became too hot. Hot enough to burn skin off from index finger. For the record, my Gainward is clocked at 230/540.

 

[badga]

digilove, just as a matter of curiousity, what sort of heatsink did you put on the Ti200 replacing the stock equipment? I replaced the noisy northbridge fan on my shuttle AK31 with a Zalman chipset heatsink which was like a mini-Alpha with inch tall spikes. i wonder if something similar with a card cooler would do the trick. I've got my Lian li with panflo L1As, PCP&C silencer PSU to a fairly quiet level so any new tricks might be neat.