Radeon 9800 needs new fan

[sswingle]

Had a Thermaltake Giant II on a 9800 and the fan died. As far as I can tell, the fan isn't replaceable. I no longer have the heatsink/fan that came with the card. What is a good, cheap fan I can buy to put on this thing. Just wanting to run at stock speeds.

Thanks

 

[MDE]

Unplug the fan and it should be fine passively cooled.

 

[sswingle]

Well, the heatsink got very, very hot. Almost too hot to hold onto for more than a couple seconds. I took the original fan off and put an old CPU fan on there as a temporary thing. Heatsink stays nice and cool now, but I now can't do anything 3D without it crashing and VPU recover coming up. I guess the card got fried

 

[BlueWeasel]

You could probably get an early revision VGA Silencer for cheap (or used from the FS/FT forum) that should work nicely.

 

[sswingle]

*still thinks card is dead since temporary fan is keeping the heatsink cool*

anyone else agree?