Author Topic: What the hell is up with fans on geforce cards? (Read 375 times)

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?

ramzey · « **Reply #1 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)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 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.

BenDover · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2003, 04:00:03 PM »

what about xfx?

Sancho · « **Reply #4 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 too, but you would probably have to give up the first PCI card slot.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2003, 04:44:20 PM »

Never heard of them Ben.

Staga · « **Reply #6 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

Tumor · « **Reply #7 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.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #8 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

Karnak · « **Reply #9 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.