Help finding cooler for an Ati 9800

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The fan completely fell off leaving the heatsink intact. Does anyone still make a heatsink and fan for this older card? I tried Google, but its overloaded with older reviews of coolers I can't seem to find in stock anywhere. The few I was able to find seem to be made for pci-e cards. I'm needing one for an AGP card. Appreciate any help you guys can give.
 
I'd just rig another fan onto it or use one of those pci slot blower fans to blow up on it instead of spending what would probably be like $30 on an aftermarket cooler for an older card like that.

It doesn't need much air, as long as you can get a little air flow over the heatsink it should run fine.
 
Post a "WTB" in the for sale/want to buy thread here. Someone may have an old one laying around.
 
Check here:
http://www.mouser.com/

I found the exact HSF replacement for my Radeon 8500 a few years back. You are own your own trying to find a suitable part, but many items do have diagrams or pictures.
 
Try to find an old school arctic cooling cooler perhaps? Theres gotta be some of those laying around.
 
Just do what I did last time I had a HSF die on a Radeon 9800, grab an old Socket A HSF and make your own. All you need is a drill, a tap, 4 1/2" - 3/4" screws ( which once screwed tightly into the HSF you cut off the heads ) and 4 nuts for the screws.

Voila, beats almost all afetr market VGA heatsinks out there :)
 
Check ebay. I once had a 9800pro and the heatsink fan failed. It was artic cool brand replacement heatsink fan.
 
Hard and Confused said:
Just do what I did last time I had a HSF die on a Radeon 9800, grab an old Socket A HSF and make your own. All you need is a drill, a tap, 4 1/2" - 3/4" screws ( which once screwed tightly into the HSF you cut off the heads ) and 4 nuts for the screws.

Voila, beats almost all afetr market VGA heatsinks out there :)
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QFT.

This is what I did to my 3dfx Voodoo5-5500 which is still in my retro gaming rig.. except that there are 2 of them because of 2 GPUs and they are socket 7 heatsinks with fairly thin fins.

I also did this with my Geforce 7900GS. Cut up an old Slot-A Athlon heatsink and made a GPU heatsink and RAMsinks. After volt modding, I was able to get a 50% overclock on that card with the above cooler, a home-made shroud and a 92mm fan blowing air through the shroud and out the back of the case.

And I may do something very similiar to my ATI 4850 in the near future.
 
You guys are making this way to complicated, zip tie another fan to the heat sink, this will work great as long as the motherboard is in the standard verticle mounted position and he has empty space under the card. I did this with mine when it's fan died and used an 120mm fan I had in my parts bin.
 
If you just want to replace the fan, I did it with this fan- Evercool 50mm EC5010M12S-B- it will not fit the screw holes of the stock heatsink (I just glued it in place). you will also need to cut the ends off both the old fan and the new one, and switch them. After that it will work like new. I got it from Directron, but if you Google it, several places sell this fan.
 
Well, I removed the stock fan and heatsink, but found there was more damage than I expected. It looks like the card is toast. Looks like I'm gonna be searching for a replacement card.
 
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