Passive cooling on GeForce2 MX400
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Passive cooling on GeForce2 MX400
Just a little fun project; took apart the stock HSF on the GeForce2 MX400 (not sure which manufacturer, its been sitting on my heap o' junk for ages) and I may put together a little quiet rig with this. Thinking about a good, quiet, cheap heatsink for the GPU. Any suggestions?
I recently bought a Geforce FX 5200 for ca. 50-60 USD converted (I'm in the UK) - if you want a fairly cheap, passive GFX-card that's a tad better than what you got at the moment, try this:
MSI GeForce FX5200 128MB
Nicely fan-less ...
(why did I get this thing? 'Cos the blasted GF2 Ultra my P3 rig had died of fan-death followed by GPU frying). .
MSI GeForce FX5200 128MB
Nicely fan-less ...
(why did I get this thing? 'Cos the blasted GF2 Ultra my P3 rig had died of fan-death followed by GPU frying). .
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My second PC has a GF4MX 460 , which had a whinny little fan.
I just epoxied a cpu HS on it.
An aluminum boxed one from an AMD cpu (without fan).
It keeps cool just fine and even allows more overclocking than the stock HS.
I suppose you could get something like that pretty cheap or you might even have some spare HS.
The only problem is that it is now a 3-slot solution....
I just epoxied a cpu HS on it.
An aluminum boxed one from an AMD cpu (without fan).
It keeps cool just fine and even allows more overclocking than the stock HS.
I suppose you could get something like that pretty cheap or you might even have some spare HS.
The only problem is that it is now a 3-slot solution....
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My Ex-Flatmate a few years back had a GF2MX400 with a passive heatsink glued on, he didnt notice for months that it had fallen off, the card worked fine, admittedly rarely played intensive games, but none the less it was an impressive feat for that little old card. but i wouldnt recomend you try it out. Id say just just glue a old largeish heatsink to the core and dont worry too much about a fan (if you get artifacts worry about a fan) you can allways use the old trick of using superglue in the 4 corners of the chip and thermal paste everywhere else.
Considering they build these into motherboards I'd say just epoxy a southbridge heatsink to it.
There's a guy at Anandtech selling them for $2.00 shipped.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... outhbridge
Look nice, easy to install and should do the job just fine.
There's a guy at Anandtech selling them for $2.00 shipped.
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... outhbridge
Look nice, easy to install and should do the job just fine.