Asus fan broken!

[Nicola]

Hi! there. My my fan on my asus x800xt has stopped working. I was all set to order a Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer ATI 5 (Rev 2) but noticed the power connectors are not compatible with asus cards. What are my options? Will it be ok to cut the old conector on the asus fan and and wire it to the new fan???? Or is there another fan that will fit straight on?

OOPS! Sorry about the double post!!

 

[Nikolic]

If it's under a year old/still under warrenty, can't you RMA it?

 

[Logsi]

Get a Zalman Like me! Ill get some pics.

 

[Logsi]

 

[Nicola]

If it's under a year old/still under warrenty, can't you RMA it?

It's just over a year old but I would rather buy a replacement fan than wait for a new card.

Get a Zalman Like me! Ill get some pics.

Thanks for going to the trouble of taking the pics! Does it fit straight on without any modding? If so i'll go order it now! Just to make sure, is it the one top of the page?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Zalman.html

 

[ajgoodfellow]

Yep - I fitted it to my X800 Pro. Very quick and easy to do - if you take your time and read the instructions you'll be fine. I went for the VF700Cu (not the Fatality version) and on 5V it's very quiet

I've uploaded a few pics (all 800x600 and less than 200kb)

Removal of stock heatsink

Close up of core

Pic of memory chips and core

Pic of back after fitting Zalman back plate and memory heatsinks

Pic of front with memory heatsinks fitted

Finished fitting Zalman cooler

Graphics card fitted back into case

 

[Logsi]

I got the fatal1ty on my ASUS X800XT PE, if people say dont get the fatal1ty get the other ones because the fatal1ty is louder, there right but the fan on the fatal1ty is faster and cools better, and its not loud at 5v anyway. Its silent on mine at 5v and it stays at 32*C when idle and thats overclocked to 580 core 580 memory.


AJGOODFELLOW, how is your motherboard? I was wondering when i saw your graphics card that its AGP (may be wrong), i was wondering if the motherbard was any good because i wanted a opteron, is it a good overclocker?

 

[ajgoodfellow]

AJGOODFELLOW, how is your motherboard? I was wondering when i saw your graphics card that its AGP (may be wrong), i was wondering if the motherbard was any good because i wanted a opteron, is it a good overclocker?

Hi

Yep, it's an AGP board. It's the ASUS SK8V with the Via K8T800 chipset. It's a Socket 940 board so it's for the older Opterons and early Athlon 64 FX chips

I don't think it's a good clocker as it doesn't have fully working PCI/AGP locks. When I was using an IDE drive I clocked it to 230HTT with the memory at 1:1 without any problems - I didn't try any further. I haven't tried clocking it with my new SATA drive as it's likely to cause data corruption on the Via controller (the x64 drivers for the Promise controller didn't work properly)