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First post, by swaaye

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I got this Leadtek GeForce 3 a while back. Its fan had been replaced, presumably because the original bit the dust as usual, or because the owner wanted something shiny. The replacement was a Vantec Iceberq copper cooler that had a fan with worn, noisy bearings. Bleh.

No more whirring grindy stuff from this card. I had an Arctic Silver Accelero S2 just sitting around.
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I thought this was quite the spectacle. Back in its time, nobody would've dreamed of a cooler like this. 😀 And now it's just the midrange option cuz the S2 is the smaller version heh.

Reply 1 of 4, by Kippesoep

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Hehe. I had the same card (and the stock fan indeed failed as well). How the heck does this fit in your computer case though? Running it with the side off?

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Reply 2 of 4, by Amigaz

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This cooler is king! 😎

Even my GF FX 5950 I'm using it on makes the card look dwarfed but it's running very cool without any extra fan.

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Reply 4 of 4, by swaaye

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Kippesoep wrote:

How the heck does this fit in your computer case though? Running it with the side off?

No it's a bit narrower than the width of the average tower. 😀 GeForce3 is also a bit small really.

HunterZ wrote:

🤣 what the heck? I hope you plan to overclock it!

Well it will probably run only a bit over over ambient temp so heat wouldn't be a limiter.

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