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Replacement 4850 Fan

Sanchez

Sanchez

Sanchez

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Hi,

My little brothers pc is playing up at the moment and it looks like the fan on his HIS 4850 has given up the ghost. Are there any replacement gpu fans out there people could recommend? I notice it needs to be a 2 pin connector and a lot that OCUK sell are 3 or 4 pin. Are there any that I have missed?

Thanks.
 
Don't think you replace GPU cooler's fan on its own...you'd probably have to replace the cooler. May be take this chance to upgrade to the following GPU cooler:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-047-AK
It SHOULD be compatable with more 4850, but sometimes manufacturer's non-reference PCB might have some tall capacitors which could get in the way of installing the cooler...so you best taken off the cooler on the 4850 to see if there's anything like that...if there isn't, and you can go for the Akasa Neo no problem.
 
The Vortex would be a much better replacement cooler, also I think you will find the fan is at least 3 wire, if it's a reference 4850.
Do you have a picture of the card ?
 
I don't have a picture of the card. I dud remove the fan and the header on the card definitely had just the two pins and the wire had only 2 wires. perhaps I have the wrong model number. I'll check again tomorrow. But at 15 quid the new cooler is certainly a good option if it fits.
 
Sanchez said:
I don't have a picture of the card. I dud remove the fan and the header on the card definitely had just the two pins and the wire had only 2 wires. perhaps I have the wrong model number. I'll check again tomorrow. But at 15 quid the new cooler is certainly a good option if it fits.
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I think the Akasa Neo's fan's power cable is connented to motherboard and draw board from the board's 3pin.
 
If it's one of those open coolers, like this one...

HIS-4850-Fan.jpg


then you can strap any 80-120mm fan on top and use one of these to power it. If you have room to fit a fan on top of course. Cable ties are yor friend.

gel-pwm-vga-cable.jpg


It's from Gelid and is a PWM adaptor for VGA. You may need to cut the end of the connector off to get it to fit, or power the fan from your motherboard and skip the card's power completely

It should be simple enough to remove the existing fan.

The reason I thought this one is because it's HIS and has just the two pin connector and is easily accessible for som
 
It'd be better value just to pick up a 2nd hand 5850 instead. Would cost you very little, but the performance increase would be huge.
 
Devrij said:
It'd be better value just to pick up a 2nd hand 5850 instead. Would cost you very little, but the performance increase would be huge.
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£15 cooler vs £70 card? And I wouldn't recommend a 5850 until the OP stated what CPU his brother got...even my old Q6600 overclocked to 3.6GHz would bottleneck my 5850 by a quite a bit in lots of games.
 
The fan attaches to the heatsink with a clip on casing around the fan. It doesn't look like the above card. The idea is To fix it for as little as possible really,so the replacement vortex looks like it might do the job. Thanks for the heads up about the three pin connector too.
 
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