I recently decided to build a few extra computers from my spare parts, and one of my spare parts happened to be a Gainward GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB AGP 4x card. The fan was dying a slow death, seems dust had gotten into it and over time the bearings were screaming.
When I used that card I guess I didn't mind, or was too busy downloading off napster or whatever the hell I was doing back then to care, but today it's entirely too noisy.
Solution: Take 1 giant Coolermaster P4 Copper Heatpipe cooler and some thermal adhesive and shut the thing up.
This ******* is huge, and takes up like 3 slots now.
It's also pretty damn weighty.
The Geforce 4 GPU has no internal thermal diode, so I'll never know the real temps, but the unit is cool to the touch, and displays no rendering anomalies.
Originally I was going to drill through the block and use springs and such, but I decided to get lazy.
the surface of the geforce4 gpu is a good size, so it's got a good grip using just the arctic alumina thermal adhesive. I put on a clean even coat, and let it cure for 48 hours with weights on it.
The agp slot has a hardcore lock on it, and the case itself has a latch to lock the card and provide support.
When I used that card I guess I didn't mind, or was too busy downloading off napster or whatever the hell I was doing back then to care, but today it's entirely too noisy.
Solution: Take 1 giant Coolermaster P4 Copper Heatpipe cooler and some thermal adhesive and shut the thing up.
This ******* is huge, and takes up like 3 slots now.
It's also pretty damn weighty.
The Geforce 4 GPU has no internal thermal diode, so I'll never know the real temps, but the unit is cool to the touch, and displays no rendering anomalies.
Originally I was going to drill through the block and use springs and such, but I decided to get lazy.
the surface of the geforce4 gpu is a good size, so it's got a good grip using just the arctic alumina thermal adhesive. I put on a clean even coat, and let it cure for 48 hours with weights on it.
The agp slot has a hardcore lock on it, and the case itself has a latch to lock the card and provide support.