Passive cooling on GeForce2 MX400

daba · Post by **daba** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:42 am

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?

PhilgB · Post by **PhilgB** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:26 am

You won't need anything fancy. Mine came with a passive heatsink much smaller than anything you would find on a northbridge.

shathal · Post by **shathal** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:56 pm

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).

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Tigr · Post by **Tigr** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:59 pm

Well, mine came without any fan and it has only a very small radiator. I would say just unplug the fan and leave it running some graphics tests. Hopefully, if it really gets too hot you will notice it. But I think it will be ok.

apocalypse80 · Post by **apocalypse80** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:41 am

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....

Uberman1080 · Post by **Uberman1080** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:26 am

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.

Creeky · Post by **Creeky** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:44 am

I had an oem Geforce 2MX that didnt have a heatsink or fan on it. It worked perfectly well except it got stupidly hot but who cares it was only an MX

Interitus · Post by **Interitus** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:44 am

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.