Silencing the fan on a gigabyte 5450
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:44 am
After a little searching, I though I'd put this up here as I could no find any info specific to this topic.
I have a 700mhz gigabyte radeon HD 5450 that came with a noisy HTPC build that I'm currently silencing (Silverstone Grandia 05 and a big shruiken so far). However for now the budget has been exhausted. And it's very evident that at the moment the fan on the radeon is the noisest part of the computer.
Can anybody give me any guidance on how I could go about silencing this? For a budget of under $20 (I'm in Canada, so postage up here would need to be factored).
Is there a more hack type solution, could I unplug the fan and clock the card back to 650 for now, is that possible with these cards to underclock them? I mean I at most play 720p video with this card.
What about VGA coolers from Ebay? Anybody had any experience with them? There seems to be a heatpipe one from china but I have no idea about mounting etc...
Thanks in advance for all the advice
Stuart
I have a 700mhz gigabyte radeon HD 5450 that came with a noisy HTPC build that I'm currently silencing (Silverstone Grandia 05 and a big shruiken so far). However for now the budget has been exhausted. And it's very evident that at the moment the fan on the radeon is the noisest part of the computer.
Can anybody give me any guidance on how I could go about silencing this? For a budget of under $20 (I'm in Canada, so postage up here would need to be factored).
Is there a more hack type solution, could I unplug the fan and clock the card back to 650 for now, is that possible with these cards to underclock them? I mean I at most play 720p video with this card.
What about VGA coolers from Ebay? Anybody had any experience with them? There seems to be a heatpipe one from china but I have no idea about mounting etc...
Thanks in advance for all the advice
Stuart