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First post, by Grayshazzle

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Hey guys, so when I started building my 98 build today I ran into a problem related to the heatsink/fan on the GPU or rather installing it. First off I do not know what the spring-like screws are that are supposed to go into the holes of the card itself. I got mine off of eBay so I do not know even if the screws that the person already put on the heatsink is going to work or not but it should since it's made for a specific card and the holes line up. Would I as a result need a catch like another female piece on the other side of the card or something, and what would that be called. Here is the heatsink I got, it's official: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/NVIDIA-GeForce-ti … ?language=en_US

If someone could tell me would I am doing wrong here or the correct screws for this card that would be great because also I cannot fit the screws through the holes of the card so that is another obscure thing I ran into, overall it's just been plain confusing to me as this should work. Thanks.

Reply 1 of 2, by auron

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definitely no backplate or anything, those weren't really a thing yet. you can see how the reference ti 4200 looks here: https://videocardz.net/nvidia-geforce4-ti-4200

if you have a different model i'm not sure if it the holes on other 4200s are supposed match it though. incidentally this cooler is a variant of the one they used on the reference mx460, and here it can be seen on a 4200, but on anandtech's review sample it looks just glued on (well, unless he took the screws out for whatever reason...): https://www.anandtech.com/show/899/3

Reply 2 of 2, by Grayshazzle

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auron wrote on 2021-01-09, 10:03:

definitely no backplate or anything, those weren't really a thing yet. you can see how the reference ti 4200 looks here: https://videocardz.net/nvidia-geforce4-ti-4200

if you have a different model i'm not sure if it the holes on other 4200s are supposed match it though. incidentally this cooler is a variant of the one they used on the reference mx460, and here it can be seen on a 4200, but on anandtech's review sample it looks just glued on (well, unless he took the screws out for whatever reason...): https://www.anandtech.com/show/899/3

Thanks for the info man I'll keep trying 👍

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