inno3d geforce 4 mx440 fan driving me mad!
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inno3d geforce 4 mx440 fan driving me mad!
My inno3d mx440 fan is driving me mad its making so much much noise
What can i replace it with? Can i replace it with a zalman chipset heatsink??? I want it to be quiet, but on a budget!
thanks in advance
Sergy
What can i replace it with? Can i replace it with a zalman chipset heatsink??? I want it to be quiet, but on a budget!
thanks in advance
Sergy
Generally speaking, I have seen too many GF 4 MX cards without a fan that I think they do not really need one. The heatsinks are slightly bigger when they are passive but you can try to simply unplug the fan and monitor the temperature. If it stays fairly cool, leave it so. If it starts to go high or the card begins to lock up, you'll have to get some bigger cooler, like a Zalman.
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cheaper way
Cheapest way (free possibly) is to just undervolt that fan. I have a ti4200 clocked at 325mhz core with a 5v stock cooling fan (gainward ti4200 64mb 4xagp I think). My case has bad flow, too!
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Remove the tiny whiny fan.
GeForce4MX don't really need a fan, but looking at the weeny HS on it, I would advice using atleast some airflow.
If you have any spare 80mm fans lying around (preferably 80L1a). Mount this parallel to the graphics card at a low voltage and it will be super quiet and safe. You will see tons of ghetto mods to mount this fan, which should cost nothing. All you need is a flat piece of metal and drill a hole at one end so you can screw it in the PCI backplate and do something similar with to the fan. There are loads of other methods to attach the fan, I guess even an ice lolly stick would work... You get the point, you will find a way.
GeForce4MX don't really need a fan, but looking at the weeny HS on it, I would advice using atleast some airflow.
If you have any spare 80mm fans lying around (preferably 80L1a). Mount this parallel to the graphics card at a low voltage and it will be super quiet and safe. You will see tons of ghetto mods to mount this fan, which should cost nothing. All you need is a flat piece of metal and drill a hole at one end so you can screw it in the PCI backplate and do something similar with to the fan. There are loads of other methods to attach the fan, I guess even an ice lolly stick would work... You get the point, you will find a way.
Based on the date of the original post, I'm guessing he's solved the problem by now - but here's my experience.
I put an older Geforce4 Ti4400 card into my kid's computer not long ago, and discovered the fan had just become horrendous with a loud clicking sound. I simply unplugged it, and left it and the heatsink on the video card.
I then took one of those Zalman fan brackets (the type that mount onto the PCI slot screws), and the included fan, and mounted it so that it blows air down onto the video card. I used the included 5v adapter, so the fan runs slow and quiet - ohhh SO much quieter than the stock fan.
I haven't done any official benchmarks/heat tests, but the system seems to run fine, and there's no video issues when my boys play games like Diablo II and such.
I put an older Geforce4 Ti4400 card into my kid's computer not long ago, and discovered the fan had just become horrendous with a loud clicking sound. I simply unplugged it, and left it and the heatsink on the video card.
I then took one of those Zalman fan brackets (the type that mount onto the PCI slot screws), and the included fan, and mounted it so that it blows air down onto the video card. I used the included 5v adapter, so the fan runs slow and quiet - ohhh SO much quieter than the stock fan.
I haven't done any official benchmarks/heat tests, but the system seems to run fine, and there's no video issues when my boys play games like Diablo II and such.