GeForce2 MX400 - cooling

[Guest]

I have a GeForce2 Mx400 AGP card. It has the black heat sink on it. I'm about to get a heatsink/fan, but I'm not sure if I will be able to mount it on the card. Any suggestions? Specifically, I was thinking about using a blue orb for video cards... Thanks.
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Dan S.

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[svol]

In theory the Blue Orb will fit, except if you don't have any mounting holes around the video chip.
I used my standard GPU heatsink and mounted an old Pentium 75 CPU fan on it, cools pretty good. I also have some heatsinks on my video RAM.

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[Crashman]

I would REALLY suggest you skip the ORB JUNK and simply install a fan on your heatsink. A 40mm processor fan would work (as used on some 486's and early Pentiums), possibly a 50mm fan, simply by screwing it into your stock heatsink, giving you better cooling and less noise than the BlOrb for less money.

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[HonestJhon]

i can second that from personal experience...worked on my old stealth3!
and cooled it pretty good!

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[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll see which fans I have laying around.
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Dan S.

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[duckbill]

I don't know what kind of a heatsink you have. Is it any good?

I myself, however, bought some heatsink material (54x54x25) and installed my very own heatsink with some arctic silver 2 in the middle. It required some tweaking (luckily the board had mounting holes on it) but was manageable. Then I simply installed a 50x50 cpu-cooler on the heatsink. Simple as that. Cools great.

<edit>This is for an Asus Geforce2 Pro however</edit>

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[duckbill]

Btw. I don't know if it's just me, but I have owned two Asus Graphics cards (TNT2Ultra, GeForce2Pro), and both of them seem to have had very poor stock fans. Crappy sleeve bearing and otherwise poor design. After a few months' use they start making horrible noise and eventually this noise becomes so unbearable, that I have no other alternative but to replace them with better, ball bearing fans. Anyone else had similar experiences?

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[CALV]

Remove hte standard heatsink, you meya be lucky and find the adhesive stuck to the chip and not the heatsink, if so, a socket7 type hsf will stick straight back on (after removing the clip....) if not, you will need some thermal adhesive (people have used araldite/jbweld), there ARE some small screwholes around there but they are a bit small and very close to components.


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