Dead Nvidia 9800GT fan

This is what i might go for on friday



Multi-compatible VGA cooler for mainstream NVIDIA and ATI VGA cards
Four heatpipes transfer heat from the base to heatsink efficiently
Aluminium heatsink with dense fin array offers high cooling performance
120mm fan with TPE cover fan frame to absorb operating vibration and noise


43mm Mounting holes
NVIDIA Geforce 8600/8500/8400/7600/7400/7300 Series
NVIDIA Geforce 6600 Series(Except 6600 AGP Series)

51-61mm Mounting holes
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460

51/61mm Mounting holes
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 200 Series

nVidia Compatability
53mm Mounting holes
NVIDIA Geforce GT 210/220/240
NVIDIA Geforce GTS 250
NVIDIA Geforce 9800/9600 Series
NVIDIA Geforce 9500GT
NVIDIA Geforce 9400GT
NVIDIA Geforce 6600 Series(Except 6600 AGP Series)

80mm Mounting holes
NIVDIA Geforce 7400 Series
NIVDIA Geforce 7600 Series
ATI Compatability 43mm Mounting holes
ATI Radeon HD 5770/5750/5670
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series

ATI Compatability
53mm Mounting holes
ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850/4870/4860/4850/4830/4750/4670/4650/3870/3850/3690/3650/3450
ATI Radeon X1900 Series

not bad for £20

http://www.quietpc.com/products/vgacoolers/dc-v400

nice looks like it will do the trick.

Yeah it will definately do the job, i downloaded and installed MSI afterburner to keep an eye on my temperatures, its an awesome program, used alongside the new fan it should keep things pretty cool and hopefully allow me to increase some settings.

Ok, i have my card working again finally!

I bought the above fan which stated that it fits on the 9800series cards, however it didnt fit on my GT, the exhausts where blocked by components on the card, so it didnt lie flush.
Also my CPU heatsink is massive and has a huge clumsy plastic outer air flow thingy which blocks almost the whole centre of my mother board, including this new fan.

So i had to purchase another fan, i did a bit more research and found this



Once i had it on my card i found that it was blocked by the stupid airflow casing on the cpu heatsink, my crude measurements where off by just under a cm :(
After about a day of wondering what to do i decided to attack the cpu heatsink airflow casing, which also has the job of attaching the heatsink to the cpu chip by means of 2 hinges, and 4 screws into the motherboard.
I hacked the hell out of, taking of 1 hinge and 2 sides of the casing, the underneath and the side facing the graphics card, the fan on the left of the gpu cooler sits underneath the exposed cpu heatsink which now means there are two fans working on the cpu heatsink and my graphics card fits :D

Yay for DIY, it might not look pretty but its does the job!

Pics may follow if\when i get them off my phone