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Cheap fan on my Asus Geforce 4-ti4200

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techwanabe

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I'm now on my 2nd ASUS Geforce 4-ti4200 and the fan appears to have quit on it already. I think my first card died because the fan quit and it over heated. It looks like I'm going to have to take matters into my own hand and mount my own fan on this card to keep it from getting too hot too.

Anyone changed or mounted a fan on these cards? Suggestions?
 
I bought one and installed it in about 3 minutes. They are cake. Buy the standard one on the net (forgot the brand, it's all orange). It ran me about $15, works great.
 
Originally posted by: Todd33
I bought one and installed it in about 3 minutes. They are cake. Buy the standard one on the net (forgot the brand, it's all orange). It ran me about $15, works great.
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What did you use? Linky? Sure I could jury rig something like a case fan. Seems like alot of these video card fans are custom jobs that fit a funky looking heat sink.

The fan that comes on this ASUS Geforce 4 card looks really cheapy and crappy to begin with. It looks like the kind of fan which would only last a short time - even looking at it would cause it to break.

I want to try to keep this ASUS GF4 card alive another year since it runs most games well enough for me, and then we'll see what is out on the market and modestly priced.
 
hmm, would that be a ti4200 video suite 128MB?

i've had 3 of them, orig and 2 RMA replacements. all 3 fans failed :-\
 
Originally posted by: i82lazyboy
hmm, would that be a ti4200 video suite 128MB?

i've had 3 of them, orig and 2 RMA replacements. all 3 fans failed :-\
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Mine is the ASUS Geforce 4-Ti4200 128mb model V9280TD

The fan looks really cheapy - the replacement card they sent me had a "almost" working fan which feebly spun, but quit spinning with in a day or two. I shut the computer off when I'm not using it since I don't want to fry my current card. It's obvious that the long term solution is to mod it myself.

For the present, I have an 80mm case fan I think I"m going to just strap on over the dead fan, at least it will cool the thing until something perminent.
 
Ive got an asus 8420 and the fan still works but i think its on its way out...the monitor alarm goes off every now and then because of low rpm's...i guess i should probably replace mine too before it kills my card....
 
Todd33, that fan spins at 5000 RPMS! How loud is it?

Fans are the weak link in any computer hardware these days. Sad, really.
 
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