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| Thread ID: 85049 | 2007-11-27 19:31:00 | "good" Video card fan that goes in slot? | camro (13050) | Press F1 |
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| 615736 | 2007-11-27 19:31:00 | Before I describe my situation I want to ask what a good fan that goes into a slot next to my videocard would be, are these good investments, and are they hard to install and setup? Resently I noticed my video card was getting hot, its a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT. I'm affraid to play my game with it being so hot. I downloaded Speedfan and it has 5 different temperatures it monitors. Only one of those gets to hot (55+ celsius), it's labeled as "remote" which I hear is just a label it gives certain sensors depending your hardware or something. This temperature only goes up when I start playing my game. I took the cover off after playing my game the other day to see if I could locate the heat source and noticed the area around my video card was pretty hot. Touching felt very warm compared to other things. I even found a very small spot that looked as if the plastic had melted a little. |
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| 615737 | 2007-11-27 21:30:00 | bump | camro (13050) | ||
| 615738 | 2007-11-27 21:38:00 | Just get any 60mm or 80mm fan and stick it on the heatsink with a bit of tape. Or get a Vantec PCI fan. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 615739 | 2007-11-27 21:41:00 | lol still learning this stuff. So its as hard as taping it down? What about plugging it up and changing speeds. | camro (13050) | ||
| 615740 | 2007-11-27 21:43:00 | nah, just get a bit of tape and stick it on the heatsink. Did it for neighbour's fanless 7600GS that was overheating. You don't need to worry about changing the speed, and plug it into a 4-pin molex female from the power supply, or 3-pin male on the motherboard if the fan's cable is a 3-pin female. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 615741 | 2007-11-27 21:47:00 | Ok ill look into that. Btw what does it mean if my display drivers wont update. I updated them through Nvidia but when I do a dxdiag it shows the old display driver... | camro (13050) | ||
| 615742 | 2007-11-27 21:56:00 | Did u uninstall the old drivers first? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 615743 | 2007-11-27 22:02:00 | well the first time I updated my drivers I didnt remove the old one because I didn't know, but the second time I removed the driver through add/remove programs "Nvidia Display Drivers". | camro (13050) | ||
| 615744 | 2007-11-27 22:04:00 | you can buy fans from dicksmiths that fit into the i/o slots on the back of the pc......thus you can mount it beside an exising pci/agp/pci-e card and it'll cool it........ | drcspy (146) | ||
| 615745 | 2007-11-28 02:04:00 | the dick smith slot fans are ok, and move a decent amount of air, but mine got noisy and annoying after about 6 months. Still they are not too pricey. From the comments I get the impression it's a fanless graphics card? as suggested you could add a fan to it, sometimes you can screw self tappers into the heatsink between the bits of aluminium / copper ( can't for the life of me remember what you call them ) Does your case have an exhaust fan, or good airflow. The graphics card is designed to work as is and would only normally get too hot if the case was excessively warm. As for the 55 degree temp, neither CPU or graphics card are bothered by temps under about 65 so unless it's the case temperature I wouldn't worry about it |
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