A pic of the card will help.
The fan was probably 12v. Btw, you probably can mount a fan on your card that's connected to your PSU directly (by molex of by use of a fan adapter).
You could even rig another heatsink on there, but a pic of the card will help. The MX2 probably doesn't need extensive cooling anyway, so I think you could get away with pretty much any cooling solution 😜

A lot of MX200's only had heatsinks, and later ones didn't even have that! Popular opinion is that the fan wasn't really needed. However keeping hardware nice and cool is never a bad thing!
As long as you have decent air flow You can probably get away without a fan on the card itself, if something generic doesn't fit

Tetrium wrote:

A pic of the card will help.
The fan was probably 12v. Btw, you probably can mount a fan on your card that's connected to your PSU directly (by molex of by use of a fan adapter).
You could even rig another heatsink on there, but a pic of the card will help. The MX2 probably doesn't need extensive cooling anyway, so I think you could get away with pretty much any cooling solution 😜

Sorry about that. Here it is:

I'd rather not connect it to the PSU directly (the one I'm using has few enough molex connectors going round as it stands), but I'll keep the sggestion in mind.

Measure diagonally across the heatsink then get on eBay for a fan of that size in mm, the fan header is either 5v or 12v but it won't matter as pretty much every fan you can get will run just fine at 5v. Just compare with the old fan as to where the positive and negative pins are then pull the plastic header off leaving the two pins exposed then press the connector of the new fan onto that. Amazing how people these days do not know this yet it was pretty common in the late 90s to mid 2000s to bodge budget hardware this way to keep things going.

nforce4max wrote:

Measure diagonally across the heatsink then get on eBay for a fan of that size in mm, the fan header is either 5v or 12v but it won't matter as pretty much every fan you can get will run just fine at 5v. Just compare with the old fan as to where the positive and negative pins are then pull the plastic header off leaving the two pins exposed then press the connector of the new fan onto that. Amazing how people these days do not know this yet it was pretty common in the late 90s to mid 2000s to bodge budget hardware this way to keep things going.

Dumb question, but I have this one TNT2 card where the plastic header literally will not pull off. Is there a trick to get it off? The annoying thing is that there is a capacitor that's in front of the header.

Seems like a standard vga cooler can't see if it has mounting holes or thermal adhesive was used. I suggest also removing the the heatsink and replacing the thermal pas te. If it's glued just gently heat the heatsink and gently twist it.

Usually a fan with molex is pass through fm design so you won't lose a molex connector. If the card has onboaRd power just cut the cables and connect them through some shrink wraps (I do this alot)

dexvx wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

Measure diagonally across the heatsink then get on eBay for a fan of that size in mm, the fan header is either 5v or 12v but it won't matter as pretty much every fan you can get will run just fine at 5v. Just compare with the old fan as to where the positive and negative pins are then pull the plastic header off leaving the two pins exposed then press the connector of the new fan onto that. Amazing how people these days do not know this yet it was pretty common in the late 90s to mid 2000s to bodge budget hardware this way to keep things going.

Dumb question, but I have this one TNT2 card where the plastic header literally will not pull off. Is there a trick to get it off? The annoying thing is that there is a capacitor that's in front of the header.

The little white plastic portion of the header with a little effort lifts right up off leaving the pins still in place. A very small flat tip screw driver or fine blade will get the job done though I have done it with pliers before.

That card doesn't need a fan at all.

dondiego wrote:

That card doesn't need a fan at all.

A voodoo card doesn't need a fan either but cooling it is adviced anyhow. If op wishes to cool his card actively its his choice and has reason to do so 😀

Richo wrote:

Seems like a standard vga cooler can't see if it has mounting holes or thermal adhesive was used. I suggest also removing the the heatsink and replacing the thermal pas te. If it's glued just gently heat the heatsink and gently twist it.

Usually a fan with molex is pass through fm design so you won't lose a molex connector. If the card has onboaRd power just cut the cables and connect them through some shrink wraps (I do this alot)

I'll look into the molex suggestion a bit more, then. Thanks!

Yeah, the four circles in the corner of the heatsink are screw-holes. I definitely know there was a fan on there before. And besides, nothing wrong with getting a little fancy with a hobby, right? 😀