ATI Video Card Cooling Fan

[Ribol]

I have an ATI Radeon 8500 AGP Video Card in my desktop and the cooling fan has started making a noise that is driving me nuts.
I had another ATI card spare and I have stuck that in and has solved my immediate problem.

The knackered fan has an ATI part number on it p/n 7120000800 and is made by ADDA and their part number for it is p/n AP4505MX-G90.

I have done a search on the net and it seems to be a common problem but nobody seems to know where they can be sourced.

I would like to swap the fan and put it back, anyone got any ideas where I might be able to buy one from, seems a shame to bin it?

[ThePassenger]

Hunt around for 3rd party coolers. From memory try googling for "Blue Orb Cooler" it's an old one but might be a starting point to finding a compatible cooler assembly.

[Luca1973]

WD40. Works a treat with my fans, seriously.

[Ribol]

Luca1973 said:

WD40. Works a treat with my fans, seriously.

Considered that but cannot see any way of getting tube in there

[stuh]

How about using a heatsink in place of a fan?

www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/vgacoolers/zm80d

[Ribol]

stuh said:

How about using a heatsink in place of a fan?

www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/vgacoolers/zm80d

There is a PCI card(smallest one in PC) right under the AGP card so no room to play with.
Looks like this thing is destined for the bin, waste of a perfectly good All-In-Wonder card for the sake of a 10p fan.

[victormeldrew]

stuh said:

How about using a heatsink in place of a fan?

www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/vgacoolers/zm80d

I have one of those, but I had to modify it slightly to get it to fit! I had the CPUs adjacent and no room, but I flipped one of the heatsinks so I had two stacked on one side instead of sandwiching. Probably slighly less efficient that way, but I already have a 120mm fan on a Zalman bracket blowing air over the cpus, and therefore good airflow across the cards, so this works OK. The 120mm in near silent, especially compared to the whine of a teensy GPU fan. The same bracket is also use to support the weight of the cooler, which is quite heavy.



Still, this doesn't help if you have your only PCI slot direct below the AGP slot, sorry.

Edited by victormeldrew on Wednesday 24th January 11:02

[xiphias]

It doesn't need a fancy heatsink, just one off of a northbridge would do the trick. My brothers 9200 came with a very small heatsink.

[Ribol]

victormeldrew said:

stuh said:

How about using a heatsink in place of a fan?

www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/vgacoolers/zm80d

I have one of those, but I had to modify it slightly to get it to fit! I had the CPUs adjacent and no room, but I flipped one of the heatsinks so I had two stacked on one side instead of sandwiching. Probably slighly less efficient that way, but I already have a 120mm fan on a Zalman bracket blowing air over the cpus, and therefore good airflow across the cards, so this works OK. The 120mm in near silent, especially compared to the whine of a teensy GPU fan. The same bracket is also use to support the weight of the cooler, which is quite heavy.



Still, this doesn't help if you have your only PCI slot direct below the AGP slot, sorry.

True, but nice pic

[FourWheelDrift]

victormeldrew said:

Is that foam material lining the inside of your PC or just a pattern effect on the casing?

[ThePassenger]

FourWheelDrift said:

victormeldrew said:

Is that foam material lining the inside of your PC or just a pattern effect on the casing?

Looks like foam. I'm guess noise reduction.

[FourWheelDrift]

Hope it's fire resistant, but I thought even if it is wouldn't it be a bit of a dust trap?

[bonedaddy]

Take a look here
[url]www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.asp?CatID=62&Category=Coolers+-+Air&ThumbNails=Yes&FilterKeywords=&FilterMinPrice=&FilterMaxPrice=&FilterCategories=382&OrderBy=1[/url]

scan.co.uk - They may well have what you need.

Rob

[victormeldrew]

ThePassenger said:

FourWheelDrift said:

victormeldrew said:

Is that foam material lining the inside of your PC or just a pattern effect on the casing?

Looks like foam. I'm guess noise reduction.

Good guess - its noise reduction foam from QuietPC. It's stuck on all bits of the chassis that don't have openings and aren't in the airflow. The whole case sits on another slab of it to avoid sound travelling through the wood floor of my office. The insides of the case also have sound deadening mat stuck on them (and as a consequence the damn thing weighs a ton!). The case also has dual power supplies and the fans in those have been swapped for quiet ones, plus the 120mm fan you can see runs at 5v and the case fan is on a variable speed switch.

With dual 550MHz PIII's (its quite old now) it does kick out a lot of heat, but its quiet.

Edited to add: the foam doesn't seem to be a dust trap, the pic you see I just took this morning, and the case hasn't been opened for about a year. There is dust visible on the graphics card, and there is/was quite a bit around the intake fan, but not generally all over the case. Ait is sucked in through the front, whizzed over the cards and cpus by the 120mm fan, then expelled by the two fans in the dual psu's, which have vents in the bottom of the psu cage. Dust doesn't get much of a chance to settle!

Edited by victormeldrew on Wednesday 24th January 14:31