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Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: BenDover on October 04, 2003, 10:54:38 AM

This is going to be the 2nd geforce card I'll have to replace due to the fan burning out in a year if this one goes.

So does anyone else have problems with unrelibable fans on geforce cards, or am I just unlucky with the fans?

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: ramzey on October 04, 2003, 11:20:02 AM

no you not

i change fan on my gf2 twice, funny way last time i cannot find in store correct size (in poland)

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Skuzzy on October 04, 2003, 03:29:04 PM

The reliability of the fan is based on who built the NVidia card.  They all used different fans.  I would say LeadTek (sp?) and PNY use the cheapest fans from what I have seen.

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: BenDover on October 04, 2003, 04:00:03 PM

what about xfx?

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Sancho on October 04, 2003, 04:40:12 PM

I had the first GeForce 256 SDR card for a few years.  The fan failed after about 2 years, but a cheap $10 video card HSF replaced it and the card continued to function.  You could always go fanless  (http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnpsvga2.htm) too, but you would probably have to give up the first PCI card slot.

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Skuzzy on October 04, 2003, 04:44:20 PM

Never heard of them Ben.

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Staga on October 04, 2003, 05:34:43 PM

I replaced the original fan with more powerfull (made of copper) Thermaltake fan/heatsink combo . There were also heat spreader plates for memory chips in that same package.

http://www.thermaltake.com/products/chipset/g4.htm

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Tumor on October 05, 2003, 01:26:49 AM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
The reliability of the fan is based on who built the NVidia card.  They all used different fans.  I would say LeadTek (sp?) and PNY use the cheapest fans from what I have seen.

Mines been crankin along nice for over a year (the nice gf4 with the huge heat sink)... but the origional 256 then the gfIII fans both died in about 6mo.  I think they learned or I got lucky this time.

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: DAVENRINO on October 05, 2003, 03:23:26 AM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
The reliability of the fan is based on who built the NVidia card.  They all used different fans.  I would say LeadTek (sp?) and PNY use the cheapest fans from what I have seen.

I ran a Leadtek GF 2 for 2 years,  Visiontek GF3 for 3 years, and a Leadtek GF4 4400 for the last 18 months.  No problems with any of them.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Title: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards?
Post by: Karnak on October 05, 2003, 09:36:18 AM

I've nothing but good stuff to say about LeadTek, Geforce 2 or Geforce 4.

Some of my friends bought other manufacturers cards though, say ASUS, and have had them die.