Replacing a GF4 HSF!

[OneOfTheseDays]

I have an evga GF4 Ti4200 128MB card and the fan is becoming very noisy and loud. I want to replace it with something silent and efficient, and i'm currently leaning towards the zalman heatpipe solution. However, I'm a little weary about the fact that there is no fan and I would prefer to just replace my HSF with another HSF. Any solutions that don't block more than 1 PCI slot like the zalman out there?

 

[Blastman]

Check my post out in the General forum ...

originally posted by Blastman:

I would like to know what people use to replace fans on a graphics card too.

I busted the fan on my ATI 7500 so I bought a cheap 12v 40mm fan with a 4pin connector and used 2 screws to connect it to my 7500 heatsink. The screws wedge nicely between the fins and hold it on pretty good.

Something like this ? 40mm fan I have it plugged into a standard 4pin Molex.

I was going to splice the wires to the old 7500 2pin fan connector with the 2pin from the old fan and plug the new fan in on the graphics card, but I found out the fan power connector on the graphics card is only 5v and the fan I bought is 12v. The 40mm fan I bought is already a fairly low speed fan ~ 2300rpm (???), so if I try and run it off of the 5v connector it won?t start spinning by itself and even if I push-start it runs too slow to do anything. It would be better to buy a 5200 ?6000rpm 40mm fan if you want to spice it to the 5v connector on your graphics card. At 5v it will be quiet, should start up by itself no problem and still provide adequate air flow.

 

[styrafoam]

Whatever you decide on DON'T buy the Thermaltake vga cooler. It will be 10x louder than whatever you are moving up from. I have the Zalman and am happy with it.