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1305999 2012-10-09 07:52:00 Recently got given a FX 3450 graphics card. Works fine but the fan is really noisy.
I had a look on overclockers but don't fancy spending in the vicinity of $150 for a cooling solution

Does anyone have a fan for this, or can you suggest an after-market fan I can use on this?
Myth (110)
1306000 2012-10-09 08:30:00 Have a HP with a 9500gs which the fan eventionaly give trouble and did

Replaced it with this dx.com

Had to do one or to mods to holes with a chainsaw file but all good
Lawrence (2987)
1306001 2012-10-09 08:33:00 Unfortunately, getting an aftermarket cooler for an FX3450, or any Quadro series card, is not likely to be cheap or easy. You may have to consider DIYing a fan into it, but most of those cards have some unusual shroud/fan setups, so depends how confident you are with possibly re-drilling mounting holes etc. Could consider putting a slot cooler right next to it? Heh. inphinity (7274)
1306002 2012-10-09 17:59:00 Thank you

These posts gave me an idea so I checked out a Zalman heatsink fan I had running on a FX5500 PCI card.
Unfortunately there are only 2 screws with the Zalman, but a fresh layer of Arctic Silver and there seems to be a good connection between heatsink and GPU

Cheers

(didn't even need to redrill holes, the heatsink had a heap of pre-drilled holes on the heatsink) :)
Myth (110)
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