On 14 Oct 2005 06:14:39 -0700,
dynamorph@hotmail.com wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I bought an Antec quiet case and a quiet power supply,
>Athlon64 3200 and MSI K8N Neo MB. The system is really
>quiet except for my video card - Asus GeForce4 Ti 4200-8x.
>The fan on the video card is really loud. I can control
>the CPU and case fan speeds, but I don't see any way to
>control the fan on the video card. I guess it is not
>a good idea to disconnect that fan. Any ideas? Thanks,
The only alternatives are change the cooler or buy a new card..
A possible and cheap one would be if there were such a program to
lower the fan speed but I dont know if there is such a program or
ability on the card and if it would lower the noise enough or provide
enough cooling.
The problem with the case fan idea , and you can buy shrouds to fit
large fans on smaller heatsinks because they started doing this with
CPU coolers a while ago ---- the problem is you usually have really
limited space unless you give up one or many PCI slots .
The more practical ways usually cost a bit. There usually are low
noise heatsinks/fans you can replace the factory one with. The problem
there is many times you have to crack the old one off cause its
attached by thermal epoxy. Ive done this before. You put a hard card
like an old credit card type of thing to shield your card surface and
the you use a screw driver as a lever to pry , snap the heatsink off.
If you can find a huge heatsink that works without a fan that would be
ideal as it would be noiseless. Otherwise you would have to look for a
low noise fan combo.
Your most straight forward and easiest solution is buy a new card that
has passive cooling. This was asked somewhere else and if you live in
the US you can find lots of sub $60 low performance cards ATI 300 type
and 6200 cards with passive cooling. The problem is many use shared
memory - they say something like 128 megs hyper memory or something
and you read the description and they say they only have 64 megs on
board and use extra mem on your system. This seems like a scheme now
to lower costs.
Ive seen 6600 Nvidia based passively cooled cards at Newegg for 100
bucks. Someone posted a $66 passively cooled 6600 non gt selling at
WOOT.com for $70 but I dont know if they still are selling them at
that price.
Noisy video card 
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