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cool gf2 mx400 without fan

3chordcharlie

3chordcharlie

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The fan on my gf2 mx400 is dying, so I guess I need to replace it. Does anyone know if these cards are hot or not? What if I just unhook the fan?

I don't play games with this machine, so I'd guess the card is never really running full-out.

Just wondering if the stock heatsink is likely to be enough?

thanks!
 
Well me sister has a GF2MX whitout Fun and that card i use to cook 🙂 ITS HOT. I know it looks like immposible but those cardsneed some fun, or bigger heatsink 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
It'll be just fine. If it was overheating, it would let you know. 😛

- M4H
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thanks - the fan is still spinning right now though, it's just making terrible noises while it does it - from the other post I suspect I need tio invest a dollar or two (and more importantly a trip to the store 🙁) in a new fan.
 
well I used Rivatuner and de-clocked the card to 180core and 200 memory (the memory is actually OC'd now), and then I just plugged the fan... it seems to be okay for now!

BTW is there any advantage to using the driver or the hardware OCing in the Rivatuner utility? I used the hardware one, does it matter?
 
I had a GF2 MX (original, not 200 or 400) 32MB 4x AGP card in this system before, and it didn't even have a heatsink, nevermind a fan!
Honestly, I think that you will be ok, unless you are overclocking. I added a 486 heatsink just to be safe on mine, but it ran fine, could play UT for hours without artifacting or other issues. I didn't overclock it though, had enough issues with a flaky BIOS. It finally bit the dust after one episode of trying to flash it, and the chip erased, but didn't program again. Oops. That lead to my downward slide, to a TNT1 PCI, then to a 2MB S3 ViRGE/DX PCI, and then finally back to a Radeon 9200 64MB 8x AGP card.
 
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
The fan on my gf2 mx400 is dying, so I guess I need to replace it. Does anyone know if these cards are hot or not? What if I just unhook the fan?

I don't play games with this machine, so I'd guess the card is never really running full-out.

Just wondering if the stock heatsink is likely to be enough?

thanks!
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If I'm not wrong the original nvidia reference GF2MX doesn't have a heatsink on the GPU.

I say your GF2MX will be fine even without a heatsink.
 
Thanks for the help everyone - I'm going to add a low-speed case fan instead of replacing the fan on the card, because I really hate noise.

Since I've unplugged the fan, the best thing to do is take it off the card rather than leave it covering up the heatsink, right?

The heatsink is hot to the touch, and my card seems to run at a faster-than-reference clock speed (default is 200 core, 166mem, with sdr). I've backed off the core clock to 182, which is the lowest stable setting, so I'm guess that will help.

Realistically, the worst I can do is cook a $30 graphics card, so I gues I shoulnd't worry too much!
 
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