Author Topic: Cooling fan replacement question (Read 582 times)

LePaul · « **on:** December 19, 2003, 01:37:53 PM »

Someone posted in the O'Club a while back that the Vision Tek GeForce 4 4600 cards were prone to loosing their cooling fans. As a result, every month, I open the PC up, clean it, check to verify the fins are clean, not clogged...blast with compressed air the fins, use my special PC vacuum and move on

Over the last few days, I hear my CPU fan revving up and down, increasing as things are getting hot. I'm thinking its time for a new fan/heatsink....and may as well buy one for the video card too

Any suggestions? Ratings? I'm seeing things that look like the heads of the old IBM Selectric typewritters from my military days!

Skuuz? Bloom?

I have am AMD Athlon 2100

Thanks!

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2003, 02:02:20 PM »

Can't help you on that one. Always used Intel and the stock cooler. Never had a fan fail on a video card.

ChasR · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2003, 02:57:34 PM »

Check out the link below:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?DEPA=1&submit=Go&description=cpu%2Ccoolers&searchdepa=1&Order=rating
These are sorted by customer rating. I opted for the Zalman CNPS7000A-CU but, almost any decent cpu cooler should do on an Athlon 2100. The retail AMD cooler is more than adequate.
As for the video card cooler, in general, by the time the fan dies the card is obsolete anyway. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Reschke · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2003, 03:13:35 PM »

http://hardocp.com look under the reviews section.

Eagler · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2003, 03:52:39 PM »

Maine?

open the doors and the windows, that should fix your "cooling" issues

Pfunk · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2003, 04:52:42 PM »

Well LePaul it really all depends on if you care about noise or not. Most people get a Panaflo or Vantec Stealh 80mm case fan and put it on top of the Heatsink....anything made by Thermaltake is high quality stuff and wont brake the bank. You can find an older AX-7 for under $20. I have that heatsink with a Panaflo 80mm fan with an XP1700 overclocked to 2.2HGhz and never get over 52C

San · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2003, 08:24:45 PM »

Another vote for Thermalright AX-7. But with this fan> Thermaltake 80mm Smart Fan 2. The fan has a rotoary control to adjust flow and noise or you can use the temp sensor thats included to run in auto mode. Heres some linkage http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi-bin/HFAstore.pl?user_action=detail&catalogno=HS-004

RKBA · « **Reply #7 on:** December 20, 2003, 08:18:18 AM »

Thermaltake, Thermaltake, Thermaltake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love my Volcano 7+ and wouldn't hesitate to buy another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LePaul · « **Reply #8 on:** December 20, 2003, 04:23:12 PM »

I bought the Volcano....and boy, just in time

First, I recalled 6 months ago, Bloom and I were overclocking our guys for max frames...I had the front side bus up to 138mhz, stock is 133. I also thoroughly air'd and cleaned the fans last night. Temperatures are at 113-115F...normal.

I think the bearing in the CPU fan was going...sounded noisy and its very clean. Its the stock one that came with the processor

This morning, on boot up, CPU Fan Cooler Failure and immediate power off. Fan was rotating...apparently not fast enough. Wow...yay Tyan for that CPU fan/cooling monitor stuff.

About to install the new CPU fan shortly...removing that paper-ish thing from the heat sink and have the silver-grease stuff ready to go. Thank goodness for backup systems to read BBSs on

LePaul · « **Reply #9 on:** December 20, 2003, 07:57:05 PM »

..and its in!

Wow...very quiet

Old fan/sink....avg 114-115f

New one...104F whoa!