Question about video card and broken fan

[TheBDB]

I have a Visiontek GF3 Ti500 and the fan on the GPU has stopped working. I think I've started to notice artifacts when playing games that stress the card. Will these problems continue but get no worse, or one day will the video card burn up and stop working? In other words, are heat problems cumulative or just there while the card is hot?

 

[amdskip]

Are you running the card at stock speeds or how much have you overclocked it? I would fix that fan asap otherwise the card could potentially burn up but it's not very likely. I'm guessing the fan could have very little to do with the artifacts.

 

[TheBDB]

I've never overclocked it. The fan took about a month to die, and its been running with no fan for maybe a month or two.

 

[mastertech01]

For about 5 bucks to replace the fan I would suggest doing that. Your case temps may be too high as well. Visiontek just went belly up so unless you want to toss it in the dumpster when it does die, Id spend 5 bux.

 

[TheBDB]

I've though about getting a Blue or Crystal Orb, but I've heard they are kinda loud. My case and CPU fans are all Panaflo L1As, so I'd hate to stick some loud thing in there that would nix my buying Panaflos. Any suggestions? By the way, my case temp is 32 C.

 

[Jeff7]

Hopefully this isn't Spamming or anything like that, but I have some coolers for sale - Tennmax Lasagna heatsinks, with Arctic Silver and epoxy. They are very quiet - I had 4 of them on a videocard once (active memory cooling project) E-mail me if interested.
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[McCarthy]

Hmm, replied to this earlier today but the reply didn't stick. Musta timed out.

It's already shown it will run fine without a fan and with just the dinky heatsink and dead fan (doing nothing but blocking air) in place. Instead of spending money on a new fan, why not just get a larger sink and continue to run it fanless, but cooler? Get the benefit of the quiet you're now enjoying, the peace of mind of never worrying about a dead fan and the GPU gets more cooling than it's had in months - sounds like a win/win/win.

Just an option

--Mc

 

[Jman13]

I had the exact same thing happen to my Visiontek ti200 (without the problems...I just noticed when I had the case open that the fan had stopped spinning).

I chose to replace my fan with a Crystal Orb. I noticed no noise increase over the old fan.

It works well, cools better, and looks better than the stock fan!

Jman