First post, by red_avatar
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You know what I mean: every darn card had a non-standard fan or even several with weird heatsinks and those fans were tiny and even back then were noisy. Now every single card I touch makes so much noise it's unbearable.
Ideally I'd like to "fix" these old fans, the alternative being just removing them and add new fans.
Since I can hardly find anything on this subject I thought I'd poke around here since I can't be the only one who wants nice & quiet fans!
Here's my take so far:
- I assume that despite most of these fans being "inside" the heatsinks, mounting a superior modern fan on top instead of inside wouldn't harm the cooling aspect that much?
- these fans could be lubed to run smoothly again but there's not many tutorials on how to open a fan without breaking it. I actually broke a fin trying to dismantle one yesterday (luckily it was an old dud I was practising on). Is it even worth doing?
- I use the motherboard chassis fan to power a fan for my Voodoo 3 3000 since it doesn't have a fan header on the card itself. I wonder if that's not a good idea for any other fan I use since the power draw for the original fan is unknown and the chassic fan header is going to be ample for driving a 50mm fan ...
Anyone have any tips or remarks?
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