9600 Pro cooling

[Participant]

Hi all. Since I've just upgraded my PSU and case fan, the next most noisy thing in my system is my old school 9600 Pro video card fan.

Can I just run this fanless (it's heavily overclocked) but leave the heatsink on i.e. cool it passively, or if not, what fan / heatsink combos are still out there that will cool this thing quietly?

V grateful

Robert.

PS it's a Connect 3D 128 MB version.

 

[SinaiSound]

Something like this would do the trick

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=64

Shame OcUK don't stock it, but you can get it from other places.

 

[david25]

I managed to do this a few years, but it was a non-overclocked card.

 

[Participant]

I managed to do this a few years, but it was a non-overclocked card.

Do you mean run passively? Presumably if I try running it passively it'll display heat-related artefacts before it sheerly blows up?

 

[G1BB0]

the fan has all but packed up on my kids 9600xt in their shuttle, had to remove case and aim a fan at it just to nake the pc usable, gets damn hot

trying to find a small cooler for it is a mare, looks like i am gonna have to just replace the whole card