GF4 ti4200 fan kicked the bucket

[Kenazo]

I have a blue orb sitting around not being used, will it work as a replacement, or will it not cool enough? I know they're really only rated for the GF3 series, but this can't be that much hotter.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I dunno, those blue orbs kinda suck. Not much metal on them.

 

[Kenazo]

quite a bit of surface area though, which is why I was thinking it might work.

 

[someone16]

Should work, try it anyways, I dont' think gforce4's run much hotter.

 

[whoiswes]

Originally posted by: someone16
Should work, try it anyways, I dont' think gforce4's run much hotter.

my GF4 is a friggin toaster - compared to the few GF3's i've seen, the GF4 runs MUCH hotter.

i wish somebody would review the NV Silencer 1 so i don't have to be a guinea pig...

exhausting all that hot air will make a LARGE difference, at least for me...

 

[Muse]

The fan on my BFG Asylum GeForce4 Ti4200 128 MB crapped out less than a year after I bought it and BFG RMA'd it and sent me another card. The fan on that one crapped out in a few months and BFG sent me a ti4600 instead, which was darn nice of them, I figure. The fan on that card is peculiar, I figure. It makes a pretty god-awful noise until midway in the Windows 2000 boot sequence, then it suddenly quiets down to pretty standard noise levels. I figured I wouldn't complain to BFG since they'd just sent me a ti4600 and I bought a ti4200 (and got a tremendous deal, at that). I'm currently on the very verge of buying a Zalman ZM-80A fanless heatpipe for the card, which will help in my quest to make the PC really quiet, since it will function parttime as an HTPC. I think I can get it for a bit over $30. If that works out I won't have to worry about a fan for the card! And I figure a heatpipe is gonna keep on working. 😎 I'm not 100% sure that it will work with the ti4600, but I think it's pretty probable.

 

[Parn]

The NV1 is working very well for me. It's nice and quiet. I've yet to see any glitches from overheated GPU. One thing tho... don't tighten the screws TOO much. They break easily. One of mine is broken.

 

[prometheusxls]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I have a blue orb sitting around not being used, will it work as a replacement, or will it not cool enough? I know they're really only rated for the GF3 series, but this can't be that much hotter.

The method I used was to unplug the GPU fan and secure an 80mm on it w/ cable ties. An panaflo at 7v works better quieter than any gpu fan for that card.

 

[CraigRT]

the blue orb will be fine.
it's not like the stock cooler on the ti4200 is amazing or anything 😛

 

[Cogman]

Its working on one of my computers, No stability issues.

 

[beatle]

Originally posted by: prometheusxls

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I have a blue orb sitting around not being used, will it work as a replacement, or will it not cool enough? I know they're really only rated for the GF3 series, but this can't be that much hotter.

The method I used was to unplug the GPU fan and secure an 80mm on it w/ cable ties. An panaflo at 7v works better quieter than any gpu fan for that card.

Yup, I did this too, and used a PCI slot cover as a base for a bracket.

 

[MDE]

This should answer the question nicely. Also, I had a Visiontek Ti4600 that had a Blue Orb as stock cooling, and all of the GF4 Ti cards on BFG's site have Blue Orbs.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: MDE
This should answer the question nicely. Also, I had a Visiontek Ti4600 that had a Blue Orb as stock cooling, and all of the GF4 Ti cards on BFG's site have Blue Orbs.

I successfully replaced the fans on both of my ti4600 cards a few weeks ago with Zalman heatpipes (fanless). If anyone wants either fan, PM me. Will sell for $4 + USPS shipping (probably a couple bucks). One's a blue-orbish that was on a BFG card, the other the stock fan on the NVidia reference cards, such as seen here: Link