Need help on adding a fan to my Geforce 2 MX

[Dominic]

I have an old pentium fan that I want to put on my geforce 2 MX. Can anyone help out or suggest a site with tutorials on this?

Thanks in advance,
Dominic

 

[Henry Kuo]

i don't know how much this help, but back in the days when i was using those pentium machines, the fan is physically "screwed" to the hs. that means just put the fan on the hs and "screw" it (hmm....) I don't know if that helps, but since there is a hs on the MX chip already, you might just use 4 screws and fix the fan on the hs.

 

[vss1980]

Although the heatsink would not have been designed for any specific fan, you can usually get 2 screwholes (that is all you need as a minimum) lined up easily. It shouldn't be too hard to screw on as heatsinks are usually made of soft-metal compared to the harder metal of screws.

Basically, find a 486/pentium fan, line the holes up, get some screws that are the right width and screw it on.

The only disadvantage you may end up with is that the overall width of the card will be bigger and occupy space for the adjacent slot.

 

[Brian48]

Instead of directly attaching the fan onto the heatsink, you could simply attach it onto a bracket made from a PCI slot cover and just have the fan blow across the heatsink instead of on top of it. Much more effecient this way in my opinion. This is essentially the same principle as the CardCooler and 3dfx V1, V2 cooler. Might be alittle hard to explain, but if you go here and skip to the section titled The BIG Fan, you'll see what I mean.

http://home.earthlink.net/~chinmonster