GF2 Ti cooler not working - Help !!

[Diego144250]

Hi there

The fan of my gf2ti has stopped. I think because a lot of dust inside the case...

Wich is the best ray to try to clean it?? May be alcohol or something?


In case i need to change it : The cooler i can buy are compatible? i mean, the brackets to hold it are an standard specification? they are 2 holes in diagonal

Thanks!

 

[jarsoffart]

Use compressed air to blow the dust out. As for a compatible cooler, I don't know. The Zalman GPU coolers might fit, I'm not sure.

 

[amcdonald]

You could buy a number of coolers... probably a crystal orb would fit you best.
If you can undervolt it you shouldn't notice its noise, which is significant unmanaged.
Depending on how much you are into silence you could look at a zalman heatsink... not worth it in your situation (with an older video card) IMO.

 

[OulOat]

Crystal Orb or Blue Orb, which ever is cheaper. Both will cool your video card fine.

 

[Davegod]

if its dust, you might well get away with just blowing on it or sticking cotton buds about (with everything switched off ofcourse). At worst take the card out and you should be able to unscrew the fan off the heatsink and give it a proper clean with a damp cloth on the blades, while your there clean up the heatsink with cotton buds or pipecleaner (pipe as in smoking pipe, bits of material wrapped around a bendy wire, dont break out a bottle of drain cleaner or something 😀). Basically just be sensible, and notice the difference between the screws holding the fan to the heatsink and the screws/plastic bolts holding the heatsink to the PCB card. Just be careful to aviod getting card wet or static from wolly jumper nuking it or something.

if fan still doesnt work, if youre under warranty manufacturer will send a replacement (might even if your not), or at worst stick a ThermalTake Crystal Orb on, although you will have to take off the existing heatsink to replace it with that.