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post #41 of 53
12/20/04 at 5:53pm
Nice work there. Good choice of a Sonata, amazingly good case. I suggest you get a Zalman CNPS7700 series CPU cooler as well as an Arctic Silencer VGA Cooler to round off the silence theme.

Also, commenting on wire management, looks like you got it pretty bad there. I suggest you try running cables along walls, making use of zip ties and do some IDE cable folding. Here's what i did for my sister's comp in a Sonata:



Not one of my better jobs, but it gets the job done.

Here's another shot.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v32/No...Computer_2.jpg
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post #42 of 53
12/20/04 at 7:34pm
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Thanks for the suggestions, I may try to get him to let me do that, but he really just wanted to get the thing together as quickly as possible..if it were mine, I'd have everything as cool and silent as possible with all the wires tucked out of the way. I'd much rather build a system for myself and take as much time as necessary on it. He gave me his P4 2.0 Northy, his old 512 MB of PC2100 ram, and an Ati AIW 8500 (with an almost broken fan). I may try to build something out of these and a couple spare parts I have and OC the CPU. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement fan for the 8500? The diameter of the fan is about 40mm.
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post #43 of 53
12/21/04 at 3:44am
Can you give us a pic of the card?

Oh, and it so happens that my sister's rig does use a P4 Northy 2.0GHz and one stick of 512MB PC2700, so it's similar.

As for the card, the fan is usually built onto the heatsink and it's going to be one hell of a hassle to replace the fan. It's better off if you replace the entire cooling solution and talking about the prices that these cards go for nowadays, well, i wont really say it's worth it...
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post #44 of 53
12/21/04 at 4:48am
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Ati AIW 8500
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post #45 of 53
12/25/04 at 11:39pm
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Anyone know where I can get a replacement fan for this video card? I'd like to build an extra computer to capture/watch tv and dvds with this, the P4 2.0 and existing 512 MB RAM that I already have.
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post #46 of 53
12/26/04 at 4:37am
Well, it's going to be very hard to do a complete fan transplant unless you have another identical heatsink laying around, maybe a fan off the current generation ATi cards, or maybe you can e-mail ATi about this problem and they might send you a replacement sink and fan. But your most viable option is to replace the whole heatsink/fan package alltogether. If you're good with DIY,you can modify a 1U heatsink to fit on your card, or maybe look into the Vantec Icebergs, for cards that old and AIW to boot, i dont really know for sure which aftermarket sinks can fit.
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post #47 of 53
12/27/04 at 2:04am
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I got the heatsink/fan off. The core is almost 40x40mm. Does anyone have any suggestions for a replacement hsf? I will not be OCing the card at all or running anything very graphically demanding besides dvds/tv/movies. I have attached a picture with the hsf removed.
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post #48 of 53
12/27/04 at 8:53am
You might want to look into Vantec's line of VGA coolers. You can probobly epoxy it on.
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post #49 of 53
12/27/04 at 12:43pm
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Would either of these work?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...110-106&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...110-102&depa=0

I just don't know about powering the fans on these. The old hsf has a two pin connector that plugs in directly to the card.
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post #50 of 53
12/27/04 at 1:26pm
Ill probobly try an Iceberg4, but i cant be sure. Go map out the area around ur core and see how far you can go without touching something on the PCB at the same height or higher than the core.
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post #51 of 53
12/27/04 at 1:41pm
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There's a 45x45mm area where the heatsink would be able to go. The Iceberg 4's dimensions are stated as 40x40x10mm, but it seems bigger than that. Do you think it'd fit?
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post #52 of 53
12/27/04 at 2:01pm
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I also found this:
http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/pro...27290fca3f9fe7
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post #53 of 53
12/27/04 at 3:25pm
It would be better if you can take the card to the shop and physically compare them.
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