nvidia 9500gs heatsink replacement?

Hey guys,

A while back my buddy tossed me some stuff a while back when I helped him move. One of those things were a nvidia card. Used it in a older machine of mine until I got a newer one and had no problems with it.

Sold the old machine and my friend needed a VC badly, so I sold him the VC separately from the machine a few months ago.

Well, now the fan is making a noise and we would like to replace it.

We have ghetto-fabulously engineered the fan to stop hitting the edge of the heatsink when it becomes unbalanced by insert paper spacers to draw the encasing away from the fan blades, but this is not right. Only a temporary fix. It works great just what it is used for except the fan is starting to act up.

Now, I'm having a difficult time locating a replacement heatsink at places like MicroCenter and Fry's in my local area.


But anyways also, looking online I am having a difficulty finding a heatsink replacement for this card.

Any gurus out there know if one is available or any information on how to shut this fan up?

As always, thanks for reading and your input.

 

Heatsinks by themselves don't need replacing, perhaps the thermal compound? I saw here a few weeks ago where someone hot-glued a fan to the VC heatsink and got better temps than the original. Not a pretty solution but an effective one it seems. If you got a fan in your junkbox, give it a whirl. Nothing to lose with a 9500GS.

 

Ahh, I see, am looking to replace the fan/heatsink. It seems to be a set where the fan and HS is one piece.

The fan gets noisy and it's a issue. But the card works great for what it does, just the fan is becoming a issue for him.

 

Darn it, lost the post! You can also try lifting the fan's label off and adding a drop of light machine oil in there and see/hear what happens. Of course, put the label back as well as you can. Maybe a local shop has one of the right size for a couple of bucks.

 

right on, have tried at local shops.. no luck >.<

online is rather hard.. I see some on 9500's but when buying they don't list it as for that particular model.. so it makes me wary on actually buying them unless it specifies.

will take into consideration about the light machine oil though. hope it doesn't boil down to that though.

 

Measure the heatsink and see what you find. Anything close should fine. You are talking about a ghetto fix.