I just got a used Ti500 from someone on here and love this sweet piece of AGP technology, but the fan is bloody loud. The most action the GPU is going to see is perhaps 3 straight hours of Battlefield 1942 once a month. I'm not crunching 3DMark2003 in loops 24x7 or anything. It has many heatsinks all over the thing, so would it be ok to unplug the fan? Thanks!
Can I unplug the fan on my GeForce3 Ti500? Do little gaming, loudness drives me nuts.
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It will start off deceptively cool, but it will eventually get too hot to touch, which probably isn't a good thing. I tried it, too. My solution was to put a Zalman fan mate on it and turn the voltage down.
Maybe you could get a fanless cooling solution for it, like the Zalman one. ZM80/ZM80A/ZM80C I think.
Maybe you could get a fanless cooling solution for it, like the Zalman one. ZM80/ZM80A/ZM80C I think.
you can replace the heatsink fan with a thermaltake Orb, though dont know how much effort you're willing to do to. If you can find a 30mm fan (I assume you're current fan on it is 30mm) with the same type of plug then you should just be able to swap it in. a 40mm (northbridge type fan) might be OK aswell, provided you can find somewhere to screw it into the existing heatsink, or another way to fix it on.
You can also buy a Zalman fan bracket and fan (FB123) to blow over the heatsink of the Ti500 or make your own out of one of those PCI bracket covers.
beatle, your pictures aren't working in that thread. 
I'll look into replacing the fan- I don't want to add any hardware to this thing. I touched the underside of the card today and even with the fan, it's still quite hot just running Windows, so I dared not unplug the fan!
I'll look into replacing the fan- I don't want to add any hardware to this thing. I touched the underside of the card today and even with the fan, it's still quite hot just running Windows, so I dared not unplug the fan!btw might be worth emailing your manufacturer, if youre lucky they may supply you with a new fan - maybe for free, maybe for some charge. Else perhaps simplest is to find a suitable 30mm fan - or maybe more likely try a 40mm (shouldnt be too hard to find since northbridge fans are usually 40mm i think) or maybe 50mm fan; but you will need to figure out how to affix it (probably by screwing it into the heatsink, or at worst/most ghetto by using elastic/rubber bands).
btw putting on an appropriate replacement heatsink fan isnt actually difficult -- provided the current one is affixed with either screws or a plastic plug, and not adhesive -- you just unscrew or cut the plugs (or if you have suitable pliers, press them so they pop out). replacement HSF then can either be stuck on using the plastic plugs, or fixed on using thermal adhesive - such as artic alumina adhesive. the hardest part is only that it can be nervious doing it the first time
btw putting on an appropriate replacement heatsink fan isnt actually difficult -- provided the current one is affixed with either screws or a plastic plug, and not adhesive -- you just unscrew or cut the plugs (or if you have suitable pliers, press them so they pop out). replacement HSF then can either be stuck on using the plastic plugs, or fixed on using thermal adhesive - such as artic alumina adhesive. the hardest part is only that it can be nervious doing it the first time
Good points- my only concern is that there apparently seems to be no known manufacturer! I've looked all over on it and have found no other name brand except nVidia. Is it possible I have a leaked reference card? The NV model numbers are there and everything... and I think it has two plastic spring clips holding the HSF in place.
look at the design of the fan, look for a manufacturer with sufficiently-similar design of fan...
Now that's cool! I have a few spare 80mm fans I could use too, but no easy means of getting a bracket like that. I think I'm just going to try and find a replacement fan. Thanks!
The guy who did the tutorial just used a plain piece of aluminium (should not be thicker than 1,5mm) and bend it to the right shape. You should be able to get a piece of aluminium like that in any DIY store. Make small cut at the angle at the one side bend it down and figure out where you need to drill the holes, shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes, as aluminium is pretty easy to work with.
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