Oh I have a feeling that will be very hard to find. You could just solder a fan's wires directly to the pads on the board. Also I doubt that the card cares whether there's a fan or not so you should be able to run a fan that uses a drive connector for power. Or just try the card without a fan at all and see if it fries or not. 😀

A replacement cooler may be possible too seeing that there are the usual 2 push pins there. Some replacement ought to fit.

Those pathetic little fanned coolers were such annoying cooling designs. The fans always die, it's just a matter of time. A slightly larger metal heatsink would be enough to cool it fanless but I guess it was cheaper to add a piece of garbage fan to a very small heatsink.

Stateside, we have several sources for the right fans with the correct mini- molex; therefore, I suspect that you should have at least one there in Britain. When such a fan isn't dead yet, I usually expect to have the time to use eBay, and pay substantially less, even after adding shipping costs.

Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection:

http://www.directron.com/gpucoolers.html

or just the fans:

http://www.directron.com/vichfa.html

I have seen in the past that Directron did ship to some non-USA addresses in the past, although I think that the shipping cost was discouragingly high.

You could cut the cable from the old fan...

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Stateside, we have several sources for the right fans with the correct mini- molex; therefore, I suspect that you should have at […]
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Stateside, we have several sources for the right fans with the correct mini- molex; therefore, I suspect that you should have at least one there in Britain. When such a fan isn't dead yet, I usually expect to have the time to use eBay, and pay substantially less, even after adding shipping costs.

Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection:

http://www.directron.com/gpucoolers.html

or just the fans:

http://www.directron.com/vichfa.html

I have seen in the past that Directron did ship to some non-USA addresses in the past, although I think that the shipping cost was discouragingly high.

Thanks for the links.... we have loads of places here that sell fans and chipset coolers but i am lookiing for one with a "mini" 3-pin connector and cannot see one in the links you provided 🙁

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Oh I have a feeling that will be very hard to find. You could just solder a fan's wires directly to the pads on the board. Also I doubt that the card cares whether there's a fan or not so you should be able to run a fan that uses a drive connector for power. Or just try the card without a fan at all and see if it fries or not. 😀

A replacement cooler may be possible too seeing that there are the usual 2 push pins there. Some replacement ought to fit.

Those pathetic little fanned coolers were such annoying cooling designs. The fans always die, it's just a matter of time. A slightly larger metal heatsink would be enough to cool it fanless but I guess it was cheaper to add a piece of garbage fan to a very small heatsink.

I suppose i could just remove the connector and solder the wires directly to the board. The heatsink and fan in the picture does look crap but my one is slightly different with a chunky heatsink and a Delta fan. I could also try my old Zalman chipset cooler with a drop of AS5 and see if passive cooling works? or do what "h-a-l-9000" mentionaed and cut the wires 😁

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Kiwi wrote:

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Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection:

http://www.directron.com/gpucoolers.html

or just the fans:

http://www.directron.com/vichfa.html

I have seen in the past that Directron did ship to some non-USA addresses in the past, although I think that the shipping cost was discouragingly high.

Thanks for the links.... we have loads of places here that sell fans and chipset coolers but i am lookiing for one with a "mini" 3-pin connector and cannot see one in the links you provided 🙁

You didn't use your eyes, that's very clear:

http://www.directron.com/a1178.html

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Kiwi wrote:

... Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection: […]
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Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection:

http://www.directron.com/gpucoolers.html

or just the fans:

http://www.directron.com/vichfa.html

I have seen in the past that Directron did ship to some non-USA addresses in the past, although I think that the shipping cost was discouragingly high.

Thanks for the links.... we have loads of places here that sell fans and chipset coolers but i am lookiing for one with a "mini" 3-pin connector and cannot see one in the links you provided 🙁

You didn't use your eyes, that's very clear:

http://www.directron.com/a1178.html

I did use my eyes smart-arse! It does not show a picture of the connector and it says it uses a 3-pin connector - not a "mini" 3 pin connector! I suspect this one uses a standard 3-pin connector just like all the others i find. (same size used for CPU and case fans).

What about finding a fan that hooks up to 4-pin Molex connector? Just bypass the onboard connector entirely...

Unfortunately, there's not much besides video cards that use that small type connector, and even many of the aftermarket coolers use either the standard size 3-pin, or a Molex.

I'd cut the wire from the old fan, near the fan end, then splice it to a connector that a more common 3-4 pin fan could plug into, thereby creating an adapter that you could use to replace the fan yet again in the future without soldering if needed.

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I'd cut the wire from the old fan, near the fan end, then splice it to a connector that a more common 3-4 pin fan could plug into, thereby creating an adapter that you could use to replace the fan yet again in the future without soldering if needed.

Well i did not think of that one 😁 That sounds like the best solution and very easy to do! Thanks 😀