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ATI Fan replaced with Zalman NB32
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:55 am
by Alistair
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:24 am
by Lards
I did a similar thing with my old Geforce DDR - ripped off the fan (way too noisy) and chucked on the NB32J. I still needed a fan though, as without it the heatsink quickly got too hot too touch! So I rigged up my old northbridge fan @ 7V and now its happy
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:26 am
by ez2remember
Nice work Alistair.
I was thinking about doing the same thing on my ATI AIW 8500 card. What is your advice on removing the old ATI HS?
Just get a knife and twist?
Did it come off easily?
Looks the part now and should run much cooler than the weedy ATI HS.
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:37 am
by Alistair
I was very careful prying it off, a knife would work fine. I imagine they are all a little different. I used a screwdriver for a little leverage, wedging in from all sides to crack the seal. Took some time to remove the epoxy residue from the chip, i used a plastic scraper (like a credit card) and a cloth with rubbing alcohol.
good luck!
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 4:00 am
by Riffer
I did it, but used the older Black NB32. This has a flat bottom that completely covers the chip.
Now I am using a ZM17CU on the card, and the NB32 is in my mobo's northbridge.
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 4:10 am
by dago
I officialy welcomes you in the now 3 members club of the 'NB32J on a ATI' club.
Other members include
me (9000Pro) and
oogabooga (8500DV).
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:24 pm
by Rory B.
I have an nVidia Riva TNT2 that has a dying fan on it, and I am looking for the Zalman ZM17CU as a passive replacement, and I can't seem to find it anywhere. I don't want to pay $30.00 for a heat pipe for this thing, because it will probably go in a dedicated game server and I would rather drop those dollars into a new Radeon 9600 Pro for myself (with ZM80HP of course)
Does anyone know where I may still find the ZM17CU?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:59 pm
by oogabooga
dago wrote:I officialy welcomes you in the now 3 members club of the 'NB32J on a ATI' club.
Other members include
me (9000Pro) and
oogabooga (8500DV).
Just you wait! Now that I have my computer back up and running, I'm going to have a whole
page on the ATI fanmod!
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:11 pm
by Rusty075
Alistair, I think you need to buy your friend a can of compressed air for his birthday. That thing's disgusting!
Now while you were working on it you installed F@H as a service, right?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:27 pm
by Tetsujin
Alistair (or anyone else who's performed the mod) did you lose the use of more than one PCI slot in the process of installing the NB32?
As I understand it, that first slot next to the AGP shouldn't be used anyway, but in my very similar situation (ATi graphics card with a loud fan that is, NOT the state of squalor inside that case
) I can't afford to lose a 2nd PCI slot.
thanks!
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:28 pm
by oogabooga
I've lost one PCI slot; I can *just* fit a card into the second slot away. Mind you, if you have a card in that second slot, you are going to have a hell of a time cooling that Radeon, espcially the 8500 which gets HOT!
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:04 am
by al bundy
Rory B. wrote:...Does anyone know where I may still find the ZM17CU?
Looks like both
siliconacoustics.com and
sharkacorp.com still have 'em...
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 3:56 am
by dago
Yes, you lose 1 PCI slot.
You've got to balance between that and the price difference with a better Zalman (HP80).
Otherwise, a possibility would be to ... dremelize (oh, horror !) this little zalman heatsink and ev. use a fan over it. It cannot be that bad compared to the standard ATI heatsink^W fan holder.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 12:22 pm
by cliche
worked on my geforce 4 4600
with zalman fan bracket and 7 volt 120 mm NMB from Dorothy
Attached using artic thermal epoxy