• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Old TNT cooler

I

imported_intercollector

Member
K,

We have a simple file server that we run at work that has an old TNT AGP card (totally not sure what flavour but it doesn't matter). Anyways, the card has a very basic HSF setup. A small thin heatsink with a fan screwed on the top. The fan started making terrible noises, so I found an old fan that's exactly the same size and threw it on. Unfortunately, the screws didn't fit perfectly, so the fan is sitting about 1/4 of an inch off of the heatsink.

Obviously we're not going to be running any 3D apps as it's just a file server, but it is important that the server stays up and doesn't have any down time for replacing video cards, fans, etc. I know that a lot of those basic cards come with passive heatsinks and run just fine. Do you think that having the fan sit a tiny bit away from the heatsink will cause any problems?
 
Originally posted by: intercollector
K,

We have a simple file server that we run at work that has an old TNT AGP card (totally not sure what flavour but it doesn't matter). Anyways, the card has a very basic HSF setup. A small thin heatsink with a fan screwed on the top. The fan started making terrible noises, so I found an old fan that's exactly the same size and threw it on. Unfortunately, the screws didn't fit perfectly, so the fan is sitting about 1/4 of an inch off of the heatsink.

Obviously we're not going to be running any 3D apps as it's just a file server, but it is important that the server stays up and doesn't have any down time for replacing video cards, fans, etc. I know that a lot of those basic cards come with passive heatsinks and run just fine. Do you think that having the fan sit a tiny bit away from the heatsink will cause any problems?
Click to expand...

You shouldn't have any problem as my TNT 2 MODEL 64 runs with only a passive heatsink and I've run "heavy" 3d apps (games) on it even when ambient temperature reached around 40ºc (I'm in spain)
 
Having the fan that much above the heatsink should be fine. A friend of mine has my old GF2 GTS...I scotch taped a little Pentium fan to the HSF...worked fine (as in, gaming fine). A TNT should have no problems.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top