Ready to buy a 25.00 zalman for my vid card but do I need to?

Can I just run it without a fan or just a homemade mounted panaflo?

Light gamining Q3 and ms word is all - not even web stuff.

I have pretty good air blowing by it from front case panflo at 7v with open plenum and cutout brackets.

Any help here is preciated adn prethanks to you all.

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Dude, a 7200 doesn't get that hot.

I just have a Steath on a Zalman bracket on my 7500 because it's now OC'ed to 310Mhz Core and 375Mhz RAM.

via radeonator software

Danx Polist - you saved me 25.00 bucks - and the roads here get very very little salt and gravel for that matter.

BTW I have 4 vdub beetles in storage, very poor storage, 2 topless needing lots of restoration and two hard tops and two extra engines sitting around, so someday that van will be a dream come true with plenty of extra motors.

I ran my 7200 with the fan unplugged without any problems (just sold it).

You'll be fine.

Thanks I love NY!

Will unplug her tonight!

And just ordered a 60 to 80 mm fan adaptor and one panaflo 80l and one 80m to mount over the hs. The 80m is just in case the 80l does not get my temps low enough. I am on my way now thanks again!

How about California...

I have a couple of 7500s and a 7200 and they come right from ATI without a fan, they're cooled passively. I don't know why some show up with fans and some don't but you should be just fime w/o a fan on that card. You could always suspend a 5V L1A Panaflo above it if you were worried. No noise and plenty of cooling airflow for the card.

Thanks Ralf,

Oh yes Sunny CA. - well ahem, I only visited CA in the northern end, redwoods in the north and WOW and you know the people there were some of the nicest I ever met.

Also my fav team yrs ago was UCLA and I still think when the Raiders played all their games on the road that year they were without a home and still won the Super Bowl, they were prolly the best team ever.

I don't know why ATI put the fan on the 7200 either at another forum someone was just aghast that I removed the fan and ran it - been running it like that and it seems fine, plus I have no nic or modem cards or anything else so it gets a blow job right from the intake lower case fan so I think it is getting fairly cooled that way. I have one spare panaflo and may just put it over my upper mounted hard drive and rest easy about the 7200.

Thanks.