Help With Video Card Mod

[Scroatdog]

Hi. I recently installed the Thermalake GeForce4 COOL MOD on my Geforce4 ti4600, that came stock on my Dell Dimension 8200. I had since bought an 8250 box and transferred all of the items I wanted to keep into the new box. Prior to installing the video card, I bought and installed the COOLMOD, which was alot easier than I thought. The only problem I have is, the power connector for the heatsink fan is a three pin. The connector on the board is only a two pin. Luckily, the kit came with a 3 to 4 pin molex connector to connect directly to the power supply, which I have done in the meantime. With this configuration, I believe the video card fan is running at max blast all the time, and it's speed won't vary with the heat produced by the GPU, as it would if it were connected into the video card itself.

Is there a three to two pin connector out there somewhere??? The wires on the stock HSF were red and black. The COOLMOD HSF has a red, yellow, and black.

Any help would be appreciated. I did notice that my 3dMark score jumped to 13,550 from 12,690. Not bad. I haven't OC'd it yet, but I assure you I WILL!

The link to the COOLMOD is

here

Thanks

 

[BoomAM]

Hi,
3 things:-
1) A new fan and heatsinks on your video card does not increase your 3D Mark scores. You`ve probably used different settings in it, or used newer drivers, or have actually overclocked it, and forgot about it.
2) The Thermaltake cooler that you have does not auto adjust fan speed acording to GPU temps. The difference between the 3pin and 4pin power connectors, is that 3pin allows you to monitor fan speed in the BIOS or Windows.
3) Even if the new HSF was directly connected to the video card it self for power, it still would`nt auto adjust the fan speed acording to GPU temps. As far as im aware, the only card that is rumored to do this, is the new, and yet to be released GeForceFX cards.

 

[Scroatdog]

Thanks for the head's up.

Another thing, and maybe you can help on this......After I installed it, and it looks like I did set some OC settings in there.....um, sonmetimes my video card posts as 64 megs. It did it about 10 days ago, then I went away for Christmas, came back yesterday, booted up, and it did report 128 megs. Now today I look in the Geforce4 properties and its showing only 64 megs again!!

Do you think I somehow screwed up the card when I did the mod???? I hope not!

 

[BoomAM]

doubt it. Ive heard of a problem like that before, dunno how to fix it though, cos ive never needed to. I belive GeForce FAQ has some solution on that. Heres the link GeForce FAQ