Video Card upgrade

[jmecor]

coz Inno3D is the most common in our place, and MSI video card is quite rare.

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My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
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[jmecor]

anyone here who've used any inno3d card?

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My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
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[Woodman]

I own an Inno3D GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB card, it's a good & decent card. It's also so-so for overclocking, was able to get something like 300MHz core (250MHz base) & about 620MHz mem (513MHz base) using stock cooling before artifacts started appearing on applications. I haven't seen many numbers, so I can't comment on whether what I got was terrible .

After a while though, it's small 50mm fan will be a problem (I assume most cards also suffer from it). The construction is fairly simple, a heatsink stuck to the card itself through two pins. A strange 50mm fan sitting in the middle of it. And a top that covers most of the heatsink (bar the fan itself). Thing is, it'll start making funny noises after a while, sorta like the blades hitting parts of the heatsink.

When I inspected the issue, I found that the blades were indeed hitting the top cover. Reason was that the fan was becoming unstable, first twisting while turning, & then later stuttering. Wasn't a surprise really, it was just some generic fan they placed over it .

I then took out the entire HSF & tried to find a replacement HSF. It was harder than I thought unfortunatly. The HSF's were either too small, or it usually doesn't fit (into the card's socket holes I mean).

I finally replaced the massive heatsink back on & clumsily screwed a 60mm & even an 80mm fan on it. The heatsink wasn't level, so that made it especially difficult to screw anything on it. One day I was surprised to see that the big fans I used stopped working competely for some reason. So I turned back to using small fans, this time a fan I hadn't used in 4 years (used previously on my Cyrix 166+ lol 😀). It was also stuttering unfortunatly, so I was on a quest to find an exact replacement of my original fan.

The fan in question was an oddity, or maybe I just hadn't seen many of them. Instead of having regular holes on the four corners like most fans, it had what looked like a flat tripod base directly under the fan, with screw holes in each of the "legs". There were no "walls" either, it was completely open.

Anyways, I looked around & couldn't find anything that looked like it. I had seen some tripod based fans, but the legs on them were angeled differently (140-80-140, rather than 120-120-120 like what I needed). I was about to give up, until I saw this small & obscure shop near the end of the computer mall. It sold cheap generic crap, but it also had this small box filled with a couple of "Made in Taiwan" fans heh .

I poked in, & lo n' behold, a couple of tripod fans screwed into a cheapy replication of the Orb sinks we all know. It was pretty cheap, a tad above a buck, so I decided it was worth looking into a bit more. I then took out what remained of my old GPU fan (I sorta "broke" it trying to see the problem heh) & checked whether the legs aligned. One did, but I was afraid that it might be a bit bigger than the sink it's supposed to be screwed into.

On my way back home, I thought about cutting the grills on the sink, but that would be imposible without the proper tools. I then thought about cutting the blades a bit, but I was afraid it would be unstable when running.

When I arrived home however, I saw that it fit perfectly. Yesterday I installed it, & my quest is thus over. I stopped running Rivatuner (underclocking heh ), & am saving up for a much better cooling solution (probably Zalman or something) until this fan breaks down again.


I apologize if this was a bit long, I'm bored as heck, & I thought maybe it might entertain some of you also bored as heck 😀.

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[jmecor]

i admire your long post!
So the fan could be the problem with their video cards.
And i don't have any hsf changing experience yet in case i encounter this if i bought one.
The Inno3d 4200 here costs $100.00 = Php 5500.00
& Gainward 4400 here costs $115.00 = Php 6350.00


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My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
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[jmecor]

maybe if i won't overclock,
i won't encounter the same problem as yours.

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My computer is <b>sooo fast</b>,
It finished <b>SETI</b> in <b>10 seconds.</b>
<font color=blue><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jmecor on 08/17/03 10:09 PM.</EM></FONT></P>