Replacing fan on a 9800 pro

[asm0deus]

I got an AIW 9800 pro thats fan was not spinning as fast as it should. I bought a 9800 pro HSF thinking it would fit, almost not quite. Anyways I was wondering if I could take the fan off of the heatsink and just swap fans on them instead of the whole HSF.

Worst case if it's not possible, I have a couple 80mm fans, could I just put those on top of the heatsink somehow? Think it would work? They are larger after all.

thanks for any input!

 

[Slammy1]

I'm thinking you're still under warranty, ATI should replace the HSF for you.

EDIT: There should just be a couple of screws holding the fans on the HS.

 

[oscar6]

I believe I have an extra fan/heatsink. $5 for shipping and I'll send it to you because I have no need for it anymore.

 

[mwmorph]

i like oscar's idea, otherwise a 80mm mounted on cpu cooler mounted to the gpu works well also. I wont make any gurantees about just a 80mm fan pointing toward the heatrsink but it sould be doable.

I had a old geforce2 gts with a dead fan. I put 1 80mmfan to blow toward the stock heatsink and it worked well enough, temps were around stock(maybe a bit lower), but i wont make any gurantees with a hot running 9800pro.

 

[oscar6]

I found my extra fan. Do you still want it?