Disabeling gfx card?

Spearhawk

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Hi,
I'm running a GeForec 3 in my Shuttle SK41G, the problem is that the fan on the card is rather noisy. So I'd like to be able to shut down the GF3 and run on the internal graphic card when I don't have the need of it's power (most of the times). However the integrated gfx won't work while the GF is in the agp slot, I have tried to look around in the bios to see if I can turn on the integrated gfx (and off the GF) but haven't found anything.
Is there a way to use the integrated gfx card and shuting of the GF?
 

Falloutboy

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is thier enough room in the shuttle for one of zalmans heatpipes? that could help the loadness factor
 

Spearhawk

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Don't know, but I don't feel like speiding that kind of money on such a old card (besides it looks like the cooler is glued to the card). If nothing else works I guess I'll just have to remove it from the case and install it again whenever I have the need of it.
 

DarkAmeba

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What do you use the shutte for?? If you're not playing games on it, theres a lot of decent less than $100 passively cooled video cards available. (9200, GF4MX, ect) That'd be an easy fix - no fans to worry about.
 

Spearhawk

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Watching and recoding TV and as a low used web server. For that the integrated gfx is fine. However I'd like to have the GF3 in there for when I take the computer to lan parties, it would be nice not to have to open it and put the card in there every time.