What VGS Chipset Fan for MX card? Orb? Abit. i dunno?

billstuck

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I never thought I'd overclock my video card, but I need to get more cooling then the passive heat sink provides. What is a good Video Card cooling fan for the G4MX440?

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Copper Vantec Iceberq. If you don't have the mounting holes for it, you'll also need a thermal epoxy or some thermal tape(skip using the thermal pads it comes with).

 

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or you could get one of those zalman passive coolers on it and have a really quiet fan blow air over it. And if the case is the one in your avatar, that side intake would do just fine with the zalman.

 

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They put passive sinks on a G4 MMX440? My old PNY 440 has an active with a small heatsink?

 

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billstuck

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Ffats said:

They put passive sinks on a G4 MMX440? My old PNY 440 has an active with a small heatsink?

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Yea it stinks. I checked the manual and they picture 2 versions of the card. Version 1 has the fan and version 2 (mine) has the RAM spaced out and a passive sink.

I have no idea why they did that.

 

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I think My MX420 doesn't even have a heatsink. I know for a fact that My Geforce 2 MX in my other computer doesn't have any type of cooling.

 

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Oh yea! The most obvious thing would be to hot glue a fan onto the passive heatsink. If you can remove that heatsink and maybe add some AS3 or Ceramique in there, you'd be all set for some overclocking.

 

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Jawadali said:

I think My MX420 doesn't even have a heatsink. I know for a fact that My Geforce 2 MX in my other computer doesn't have any type of cooling.

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my gf2 has an active heatsink... lol

you could epoxy an old heatsink to it also... go look in the video card gallery section

 

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Jawadali said:

I think My MX420 doesn't even have a heatsink. I know for a fact that My Geforce 2 MX in my other computer doesn't have any type of cooling.

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I'm quite positive that your cards would have a heatsink. They still put out amounts of heat that could damage itself.

 

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Maybe, I haven't really looked at my Geforce 4 MX420. But I am positive that my Geforce 2 MX does not have a heatsink.

 

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Well I bought the Thermaltake Coolmod kit for GF4 cards but it didn't fit my card. Ti Only.

So I found an old little fan and screwed it down it on the passive heat sink the MX had. Also added some Artic Silver.

Then I found an old Celeron 700mhz CPU sink and chopped it in half and stuck it on my RAM.

I'm going see if my overclock goes any higher now.