9800 help
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You need a proper cooler
So long as you don't do any 3d stuff, you MIGHT be able to get away with using it with the fan not working for a short period 'cos it wouldn't be that stressed and the arctic does have some sort of heatsink - a fan blowing on that would surely help.....but you wouldn't have got a 9800 in the first place if you were only doing 2d stuff, right? The reality is that I am guessing here, so it's all at your own risk
Thought about fitting the stock fan back on as a stopgap?
So long as you don't do any 3d stuff, you MIGHT be able to get away with using it with the fan not working for a short period 'cos it wouldn't be that stressed and the arctic does have some sort of heatsink - a fan blowing on that would surely help.....but you wouldn't have got a 9800 in the first place if you were only doing 2d stuff, right? The reality is that I am guessing here, so it's all at your own risk
Thought about fitting the stock fan back on as a stopgap?
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17554327
Look at that in the graphics section 4th poster - some guy seemed to have had a mate that ran his without a fan for a few months - sounds like a deathwish to me
Look at that in the graphics section 4th poster - some guy seemed to have had a mate that ran his without a fan for a few months - sounds like a deathwish to me
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exact same thing happened to my mate, his fan jst stopped working on his 9800Pro, you could probably get the manufacturer to replace it for free but what my mate did was...
Attached a cpu fan above the GPU blowing onto it, he hasn't had any troubles with it since :O
Attached a cpu fan above the GPU blowing onto it, he hasn't had any troubles with it since :O