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Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:07 am Post subject:
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I bought an FX5200 128MB card (made by Legend) from a shop
that offered it $10 cheaper than any other shop.
I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small fan.
I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts, which I believe is about the
limit before you need cooling assistance. I spent the evening
trying a few games (fairly old, nothing that should stress it) and
afterwards, the heatsink was quite hot - you couldn't leave your
finger on it for more than half a second.
The PC is used in a room without airconditioning, so I am
worried about summer heat.
I have left the 2 PCI slots next to AGP free.
I wonder if I should add a fan somewhere to blow air on
the Nvidia card? |
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First of One
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:04 am Post subject:
Re: should FX5200 have a fan? |
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If the card overheats, you will experience visual artifacts or lockups. If
you don't see any anomalies, it is not overheating. A good artifact-tester
app is ATiTool; you don't need an ATi card to use it.
Remember, if a heat sink is hot, it is doing its job of conducting heat from
the GPU.
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| Quote: | I bought an FX5200 128MB card (made by Legend) from a shop
that offered it $10 cheaper than any other shop.
I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small fan.
I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts, which I believe is about the
limit before you need cooling assistance. I spent the evening
trying a few games (fairly old, nothing that should stress it) and
afterwards, the heatsink was quite hot - you couldn't leave your
finger on it for more than half a second.
The PC is used in a room without airconditioning, so I am
worried about summer heat.
I have left the 2 PCI slots next to AGP free.
I wonder if I should add a fan somewhere to blow air on
the Nvidia card? |
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CeeBee
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:
Re: should FX5200 have a fan? |
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seman@optusnet.moc (ms) wrote in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia:
| Quote: | I bought an FX5200 128MB card (made by Legend) from a shop
that offered it $10 cheaper than any other shop.
I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small fan.
I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts, which I believe is about the
limit before you need cooling assistance. I spent the evening
trying a few games (fairly old, nothing that should stress it) and
afterwards, the heatsink was quite hot - you couldn't leave your
finger on it for more than half a second.
The PC is used in a room without airconditioning, so I am
worried about summer heat.
I have left the 2 PCI slots next to AGP free.
I wonder if I should add a fan somewhere to blow air on
the Nvidia card?
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Wasn't that fan the difference between the 64 bit (no fan) and 128 bit (fan)
variety? In that case you need no fan, just the heatsink, which is designed
to do its job: get hot.
If you want to add another noisy fan, use one that leads the hot air from
the card out of your casing, not one that blows air that's already hot and
dusty into the casing or onto the card. Suck, don't blow :))
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Phil Weldon
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Sat Nov 12, 2005 8:26 am Post subject:
Re: should FX5200 have a fan? |
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'ms' wrote, in part:
| I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
| they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small fan.
| I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts
The FX5200 does use about 25 watts.
Make sure you have VERY good case air flow. Like a fan mounted in the side
of the case blowing outside air directly over the graphics adapter. There
are fans that install in the knockout for a slot, but these fans deliver
half the air flow of a 60 mm muffin fan and take up a slot.
Phil Weldon
"ms" <seman@optusnet.moc> wrote in message
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| I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
| they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small fan.
| I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts, which I believe is about the
| limit before you need cooling assistance. I spent the evening
| trying a few games (fairly old, nothing that should stress it) and
| afterwards, the heatsink was quite hot - you couldn't leave your
| finger on it for more than half a second.
| The PC is used in a room without airconditioning, so I am
| worried about summer heat.
| I have left the 2 PCI slots next to AGP free.
| I wonder if I should add a fan somewhere to blow air on
| the Nvidia card? |
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Kokoro
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 3:08 pm Post subject:
Re: should FX5200 have a fan? |
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In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, CeeBee ordered an army of
hamsters to type:
| Quote: | seman@optusnet.moc (ms) wrote in alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia:
I bought an FX5200 128MB card (made by Legend) from a shop
that offered it $10 cheaper than any other shop.
I noticed it has no fan. If was curious is this was a cheap nasty
they are trying to get rid of. The old TNT2 it replaces had a small
fan. I heard the FX5200 uses 25 Watts, which I believe is about the
limit before you need cooling assistance. I spent the evening
trying a few games (fairly old, nothing that should stress it) and
afterwards, the heatsink was quite hot - you couldn't leave your
finger on it for more than half a second.
The PC is used in a room without airconditioning, so I am
worried about summer heat.
I have left the 2 PCI slots next to AGP free.
I wonder if I should add a fan somewhere to blow air on
the Nvidia card?
Wasn't that fan the difference between the 64 bit (no fan) and 128 bit
(fan) variety? In that case you need no fan, just the heatsink, which
is designed to do its job: get hot.
If you want to add another noisy fan, use one that leads the hot air
from the card out of your casing, not one that blows air that's
already hot and dusty into the casing or onto the card. Suck, don't
blow :))
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You can get 128bit versions without fans. Inno 128bit version 5200's are
without fans. Similarly most 128bit 6200's are fanless, well, I know XFX
ones were fanless.
Its probably just down to cost, slapping on a slightly bigger heatsink is
probably cheaper than investing in a fan, even a cheap fan. Also cheap
fans dont last long and most manufacturers probably know that.
aww well ^_^ makes you wonder what future cards at this end of the scale
will be like, will they use more power and output more heat? Actually,
come to think about it. with smaller manufacturing processes future cards
may probably output less heat. |
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