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Toasted video card

jonathonball

jonathonball

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Had a friend give me his PC because the video would cut out after some use.

I told him the fan on the video card was probably shot.

I hit the nail on the head.
I noticed the sticker bling was half peeled off, so I removed it and found the heat shroud had melted into artwork.

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I told him he was lucky he didn't burn his house down.

Best part, he's going cheap and wants to repair it.
Anyone know of a passable aftermarket heat-sink-fan for 9800 GT in the sub $20 range?
 
He claims to not smoke inside... the fan didn't look that bad. Sure it was dusty but not OMG dusty... I think the fan just quit life.
 
I know it might be out of the price range but if you can find a Thermalright HR-03 and put a 92mm fan on it, I can tell you I have an 8800GS with idle temperatures in the 30's 'C and 46'C while exiting BF2.
You have to check which one is compatible though because there are several versions.
 
Wow, I never saw one melted like that before. Let us know how the repair goes.
 
CruisD64 said:
I'm surprised it still works
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I modified a volcano7 cpu heatsink to fit a pny ti4200. After a few months I started having problems the second I launched a game. My comp would crash. I don't remember what I had holding it on the card but it came loose and the heatsink wasn't making contact with the gpu anymore. Slapped the stock cooler back on and it worked for years after that.
 
jonathonball said:
He claims to not smoke inside... the fan didn't look that bad. Sure it was dusty but not OMG dusty... I think the fan just quit life.
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You see this a lot when you do pc repair and service. That dark brown stuff in the fan is tar buildup that collects inside of computers when their users smoke nearby. Nasty stuff, I refused to work on computers if I had to deal with it. I usually recommended them to geek squad or circuit city's repair department. Odds are that brown tar gunk was the reason his fan stopped spinning. Your friend more than likely smokes right by his computer, with the intake fans sucking in the nasty stuff.
 
It's silly to get an aftermarket cooler for a 9800 GT.

You could get a better card just for the price of the cooler.

Not to mention you have ZERO knowledge that it will still work after you get the cooler.
 
Trackr said:
You could get a better card just for the price of the cooler.

Not to mention you have ZERO knowledge that it will still work after you get the cooler.
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He wants to spend < $20

The card still works, it shuts down from the heat after some time.

cheese007 said:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=RV-UCH-NNU1-GP
Have these cooling a pair of 9800GTs. For the price ($3.99) they're unbeatable.
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It doesn't list 9800GT as compatible on the link you provided.. did you have to mod anything to get them to fit? I'm seriously considering these. A. It's not my equipment. B. He's on the friend tick so I'm only getting paid for the hardware. C. It sounds like an awesome experiment.
 
jonathonball said:
He wants to spend < $20

The card still works, it shuts down from the heat after some time.
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Is there an aftermarket cooler for 20$? If you're going to spend 30$+, it would be far more wise to get, say, a GTX 460 for 100$ and sell the 9800 GT on eBay for another 20$(?).
 
Trackr said:
Is there an aftermarket cooler for 20$? If you're going to spend 30$+, it would be far more wise to get, say, a GTX 460 for 100$ and sell the 9800 GT on eBay for another 20$(?).
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I agree with you 100%, but again it's not my equipment. This guy lives with his brother and has a "ramen for dinner" kind of budget. I'm going to upgrade my GTX260 this holiday season and he balked at the $50 I asked for my old card.
 
jonathonball said:
I agree with you 100%, but again it's not my equipment. This guy lives with his brother and has a "ramen for dinner" kind of budget. I'm going to upgrade my GTX260 this holiday season and he balked at the $50 I asked for my old card.
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It's cheaper then smoking.
 
If he wants to go that cheap pull out the fan in the card (it's broken anyways) and zip tie a 80mm fan to thecard. Not the most aesthetic solution, but it should work. Be creative, drill some holes in the plastic shroud and zip tie through that, or zip tie under the heatsink, basically anything you can to keep it in place and blowing into the hole where the original fan was.
 
If you find the heatsink is glued on there once you remove screws etc., you may have to put it in the freezer for 20min. to seperate the heatsink from the rest of the card. I try to use an anti-static bag when I can.
 
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