Cheap, quiet cooler for GF2 GTS

[beatle]

The fan on my GF2 GTS has seen better days. It doesn't have to be passive (preferred) but I don't want it to make much noise. It doesn't get much use, if any, as a 3d card, so I imagine I could get away with some lighter duty cooler, but I'm not sure what's out there. CHEAP is most important, like under $5, since the card is not worth much as it is.

 

[Cerb]

My friend's GF2 GTS (mine, really) had a dying fan. I unscrewed it, and used scotch tape to attach a fan from old AMD K5. Works great, and is quiet. The heatsink was the kind where most of the space that could be used to make a passive sink was used for the fan, and it has a thick glob of heatsink adhesive, such that I imagine it would really run cooler without a heatsink.

Moral of the story: if it will fit on there and move air, it's probably good enough.

 

[0roo0roo]

one time i did a really ghetto mod. took an unused pci backplate,and bent it so that it stuck out over the video card area. i then glued a fan to it blowing down on the video card screw that onto the backplate area and your done, ghetto pci/agp cooling. just use any old fan.


my current more elegant solution involves cutting a hole in the side of the case above the cards.

 

[Skoodog]

I have an old gf2 gts I'm about to will away to my friend. I have an old stock HS for my 800 mhz AMD processor. I was wondering if I could attach it to the vidcard some way. I'm guessing the answer's probably no, since it's a clip-style HS. But it would rule.

 

[0roo0roo]

sure you could. get some epoxy or thermal epoxy from an online pc modding/cooling store and glue away! sacrificing a slot or two is fine for most people. it works damn ok.


i've used superglue before, but well i'm not sure if i'd recommend that to you

 

[TheCorm]

Couldn't a 200mhz GTS GPU run with a larger heatsink and no fan?