Dead GPU Fan

[mordantmonkey]

I woke this morning and found my secondary box displaying a single line of junk at the top of the screen. My Geforce3 ti200?300? fan finally crapped out. Can i replace the fan and it will be good as new? Or is it permanently screwed?
Any suggestions for a replacement? I don't use it for gaming much anymore, but i'd like something decent.

 

[zagood]

you can always fab your own heatsink for that, not really worth the trouble though.

list your system specs so we can recommend a card that won't be limited by a cpu/ram bottleneck.

-z

 

[mordantmonkey]

It seems the video card is OK. But the fan is out and i don't want to run it too long without the fan.
specs:
P3 997MHz
512MB pc133 RAM
Geforce3 ti200

I think I'll just replace the cooler since i found a replacement for $11 shipped. Can't beat that right?

 

[zagood]

Wow...yeah...that's not the beefiest system in the world.

Go with the replacement fan. Like you said, pretty tough to beat.

If you wanted a cheap upgrade, you can always go with this - $30

link

edit - originally though it was the ti500, noticed it's just the "Pure." Still a faster card than the ti200.

-z

 

[zagood]

Also some good suggestions for cheap cards here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1736687&enterthread=y

-z

 

[jevans64]

I had a fan in my ti500 go out years ago. I just got one of those 486 CPU coolers with the fan attached to it, took the fan off of it, and soldered the GPUs fan header to it. I think the cooler was around $6 at my local PC shop. I bet one of those round Vantec coolers would have fit it too.