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I would say for your best cooling to get the Tenmax fan--As long as you
still have the fan blowing on your heatsink you will be ok tho...

P&L&LA <no@aol.com> wrote in message
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> well looks like I just joined the ranks of those whose TNT2U fan has
ceased
> to function. I heard what sounded like a small weed eater like engine. I
> opened my case, checked my case fans, all were fine. Finally narrowed the
> annoying sound to the video card fan. I left the side panel open and
> powered the system back up. I then shined a flashlight at the video card
> fan. The fan would spin fast then slow and lopsided. powered off the
system
> and pulled the video card out. I then carefully removed the fan from its
> heatsink housing. I then found the culprit. The upper left retaining are
was
> broken (the same arm that houses the fan wire. I ended up putting on a
small
> cpu 486 cpu fan. The fan of course does not fit inside the heatsink so it
> ends up sticking out to high and leaves a 1/8 inch gap between the fan and
> the bottom of the heatsink rather than touching the bottom of the heat
sink
> as did the original . The little fan I put on is rated at 1.08 cfp and
seems
> to be a lot more powerful than the original. Should that be safe enough
for
> the card or do I need to get something like the tenmax graphics cooler?
> Does anyone know if I can just get the fan from creative? Sending the
video
> card in to creative and waiting 7 weeks for a replacement , as one fellow
> wrote is not an option. As a side note, I noticed that creative is using
the
> identical fan on the annihilator. I guess they never learn. Beside the fan
> thing , my CL TNT2U has been a very good card. current speed is set to
> 190/200
>
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