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Geforce 4 4200 replacement fans?

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The video game gods have shat upon me this week. They have been working hard at making me not be able to play doom3. First it was a HD failure on Saturday, Then a power supply failure on Sunday..and now.. on monday.. not 1.. but 2 fans died on both of my Geforce 4 4200 cards.

Im looking to find a replacement fan for these, I cant afford to buy a new vid card till the 15th. I checked all the local shops, none had any, however, the compusa thats 30 miles from here has a BFG GPU Universal fan. Im curious if anyone has tried it out? The local compusa doesnt have it..

I have a BFG 4200, and an Abit 4200.
 
I know you can call abit and they will ship you one they did for me. Don't know about bfg but I bet if you talk to them nicely they will too.
 
You have to call the company that made your video card and order fans from them.
Leadtek charges $10. I kinda wish video card manufacturers would include an extra fan.

Compusa sells a chipset cooler kit for $10 that has a tiny fan, and some heatsinks. You can bolt the fan on your existing card and it will do the job.
 
Lol if you can find the loophole of getting around a restocking fee, buy an older card that matches yours, switch fans (make sure you clean the old one and even swap the stickers on it) then make your return to the store. I've gotten around the restocking fee only twice, I asked for the manager and explained that one of the employees at 'the other' store (i always return to a different location) recommended this card would do something that it didnt, or it wasnt compatible, basically be intelligently creative with you lie ;)
 
BFG required shipping the card to them(when I contacted them)...which is silly for a fan. I decided to simply order an orb heatsink as it cost about the same as shipping it back to bfg.(simply swapped fans)
 
Assuming you will OC to get the most performance out of D3...stay away from the orbs. They do not disipate heat very well, and other alternatives exist. Im sure newegg has some stuff for the GF4, and if youre really desperate you can always use a fat CPU heatsink/fan :)
 
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