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First post, by Trank

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I am rebuilding my original XP machine from years and years ago. One thing that broke was the wires on the fan. I believe the fan size is 45mm so thats not an issue, and the card works fine. But after looking for sometime I just cant find a proper way to search for fans. Even on eBay. Can anyone lend some direction?

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Reply 3 of 19, by stamasd

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How about something similar to this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Replacement-45-mm-2-P … yQAAOSwnNBXU03R

Found among the top hits after searching for "video fan" then sorting by price-ascending

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Reply 4 of 19, by chinny22

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As its only the fan your after you can probably get a good deal on a "spares/repair" or even faulty 6800 card listing on ebay or wherever.
I would bet most of the dead ones are due to the heat/solder issue rather then a failed fan.

Reply 5 of 19, by matze79

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Just Drill Holes inside the plate and screw a Fan to the top plate ?

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Reply 7 of 19, by stamasd

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While the last 2 ideas are likely viable, they will turn this card from a 1-slot in a 2-slot card due to the added height...

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Reply 8 of 19, by nforce4max

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Honestly I would just slap a Zalman VF900 and be done with it in style but you should just scrounge eBay for another 6800 that has the cooler you want then salvage that. Stock coolers a most 6800s were not very good.

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Reply 10 of 19, by ODwilly

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A strategically placed fan in your case could possibly cool it. If you have a spot on the side panel to mount a fan for example.

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Reply 11 of 19, by Trank

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Thanks for all the ideas, I could try just placing a fan on top of the heatsink and see how that goes. If that wont fit, or doesn't work well ill have to see about buying the fan stamad linked or even going for one of those dead 6800s for the fan parts.

Reply 14 of 19, by Tetrium

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You could try simply removing the plastic cover and fan from the heatsink and mount a casefan onto it?

It's what I did with one of my own 6800s and it worked flawlessly like that for years.

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Reply 16 of 19, by Trank

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I would have taken the plate off but like i said the screws are sadly stripped. No way to take it off easily.

Also thank you man. Those are EXACTLY what im looking for. I think i am just going to go with the replacement cooler. Its only 10 bucks. I think the thing is about the fan connection on those replacement fans they are too small, if i wanted to i could just take the fan out of that cooler and still use the old school heatsink.

Reply 17 of 19, by Unknown_K

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You have quite a few options since it just a 2 pin fan connector. When you get into 4 pin connectors you have more problems.

Buying a dead card for the whole assembly is probably the cheapest way to go.

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Reply 19 of 19, by stamasd

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agent_x007 wrote:

Replacement FAN (possible) : LINK

Exactly the same fan I linked to in my post above, only twice as expensive. 😀

Trank wrote:

I think the thing is about the fan connection on those replacement fans they are too small,

No, it's exactly the same connector.

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