Unpluging the fan on my Gforce GTS Pro?

[Toro 45]

Has anyone run their's without the fan?In quest of a quieter case I've noticed that my Gforce fan is louder than my Panaflow case fans.It's not overclocked so I'm thinking I might be able to unplug it,just don't want to fry it.

Toro

 

[Shack70]

I'm sure you can do it, some manufacturers dont even ship with a fan. If you start getting errors or the system reboots, plug it back in.

 

[CraigRT]

Since that GeForce2 Pro core runs fairly warm compared to some, unless you are going to put a bigger passive cooled HS on there, don't unplug the fan.. I saw a GeForce256 DDR card die because the crappy cheap fan went south on it, resulting in an overheating of the GPU, which basically screwed up the card.. while it was still "useable" it was definitely ruined.. I'd put a big Pentium HS on it or something if you are going to remove the fan. That, i am sure, would work.

 

[cockeyed]

I think your best way to quiet the fan is to run it at +7 volts instead of the original +12 volts. It still provides cooling but at a lower RPM which reduces the noise a lot. It is simple to do; just connect the black fan wire to a +5 volt source instead of ground, providing a +7 difference of potential. A search of the web or AT should turn up more info on doing this as it is a common practice. As I recall, there was a site called quietpc or something like that that had detailed instructions and in the AT video forum, someone recently wrote about doing this to their BLORB GF3 fan. I do it for CPU and case fans and it works real good.

 

[Toro 45]

Thanks for the replies.I almost unplugged it today but I was touching the top of the card, directly above the core & it was pretty hot.Not as bad as my old V3 but with the fan unplugged I think she'd get mighty hot.I do have good case cooling(2 intake 2 exhaust fans)

So no one has tried unplugging theirs?