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I was lust wondering, I removed a small heatsink n fan off my old pci geforce card and was thinking of mounting the hs on my ATI 7500 at home. My ATI currently has no fan as I removed it a few weeks ago, the card gets fairly direct airflow from the fr case fan, but I thought I could remove glue the hs onto the card after removing the little pony geforce fan and fun it like a passive heatsink.

I have some superglue at home to do this, is this a bad idea or would it help my card a bit?

At the very least use a thermal epoxy. I don't think superglue conducts heat very well. But if you're going to be sticking on a heatsink on your graphics card, why not use the Zalman NB32J instead? It even comes with the adhesive, I think.

Why do you even need more heatsink than what came on that 7500? I use the fanless versions of the 7500 in many of my builds and they run just fine with that small factory heatsink on them and no additional cooling at all.

Ralf Hutter wrote:Why do you even need more heatsink than what came on that 7500? I use the fanless versions of the 7500 in many of my builds and they run just fine with that small factory heatsink on them and no additional cooling at all.

*confirmed*

I run a passive 9000, and IIRC there's even a fanless 9600. I doubt your 7500 even needs the sink it's got. No worries.

Now slap the sink back on that PCI geForce and give it to some incredibly grateful Compaq/HP user with no AGP slot.

- M4H

To mount my heatsink to my graphics card (though I used the AMD stock heatsink that came with my CPU ) I used 3 dots of super glue at the edges and AS 3 in the middle. Works fine.

Thanx all, I was going to leave the pci card, which I gave away to someone who runs voodoo's but he'd prefer to not havve the fan/hs and was going to toss it so I figured why not.

I guess I was subsribing to the theory that every little bit of cooling can help in the end. :}

Fanless 7500, Ralf? Could you point me at one or two models so that I can try to find one of them in the UK?

Bat wrote:Fanless 7500, Ralf? Could you point me at one or two models so that I can try to find one of them in the UK?

Well, mine are all "Built by ATI" versions that I've bought from newegg and/or Mwave in the past year or two. I'm not sure if the 7500's are still in production and the ones I'm using (7500 with no fan and DVI out) were pretty hard to find even when they were available. I did find a "Powered by ATI" Sapphire version that should work just fine. It's $55 and available at Newegg. Scroll down and look for the $55 "ATI OEM RADEON 7500LE 64MB DDR AGP BULK,Power by ATI" card. Dat be da one.